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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
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The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.
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Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration.
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Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
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We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.
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Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.
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The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
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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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I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.
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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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When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.
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The world needs a revolution led by women.
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It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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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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