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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
Life
Heartbeat
Breath
Breaths
Meaning
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Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
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I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.
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To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
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It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.
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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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God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.
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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
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Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
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Being formed into a nation takes some doing.
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I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.
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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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People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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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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