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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
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Others
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many wars of religion that were fought, the cruelty of Christians in burning what they believed to be witches and burning heretics, and then very recently they were responsible for the Holocaust... it was Christians.
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
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A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
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Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
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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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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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True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
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