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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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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Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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No future without forgiveness.
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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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We need other human beings in order to be human.
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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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Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.
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The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.
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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human.
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
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Anything war can do, peace can do better.
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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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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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True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.
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As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.
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If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
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The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
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Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?
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