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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

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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
Humankind
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Society
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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