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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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