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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
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Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.
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Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction we are already feeling the effects.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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Being formed into a nation takes some doing.
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One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.
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In most, when you go to church, most churches when they have images of the good shepherd, they show Jesus carrying a nice fluffy lamb. Now fluffy little lambs don't stray from their mommy's. The sheep that will stray is the most obstreperous, troublesome one.
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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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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
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It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.
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