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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
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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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Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
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We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.
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For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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There is room for everyone there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong
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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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We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.
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The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.
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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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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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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, I love you. I care for you, enormously. And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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