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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
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God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said I want persons who therefore have freedom.
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God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
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Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
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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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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
Desmond Tutu
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.
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Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.
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This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.
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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
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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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Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.
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We need other human beings in order to be human.
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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
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We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.
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