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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
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Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
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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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God hopes that we are going to love God back.
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Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
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Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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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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Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
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True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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We can only be human together.
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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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