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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.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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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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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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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
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Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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Hate has no place in the house of God.
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It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future
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Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
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If I diminish you, I diminish myself
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Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
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I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say our prophets.
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It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.
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There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.
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The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
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Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water and each drop counts, each one of us can do our little bit where we are. Those little bits can come together and almost overwhelm the world. Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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