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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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Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.
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God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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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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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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There is room for everyone there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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Hate has no place in the house of God.
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Nothing is too much trouble for Love.
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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.
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Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.
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When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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