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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.

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
Persons
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Human
Humans
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We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.
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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 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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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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