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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: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others. happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
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My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, I love you. I care for you, enormously. And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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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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A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
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There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.
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To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
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Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
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We can only be human together.
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If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!
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When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
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Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.
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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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The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
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I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.
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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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