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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
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Restorative justice says No, the offense affected a relationship and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.
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We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community.
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Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
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We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.
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God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
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Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.
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If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!
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As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
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Being formed into a nation takes some doing.
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The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.
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