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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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I don't preach a social gospel I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.
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If I diminish you, I diminish myself
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It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.
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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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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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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
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If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.
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