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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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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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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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Let girls be girls and not brides
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A person is a person through other persons you can't be human in isolation you are human only in relationships.
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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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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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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
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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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I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
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[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.
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Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
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We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.
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No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
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