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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights. No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!
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Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
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I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
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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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There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.
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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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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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