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When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, Now is that political or social? He said, I feed you. Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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I have often said to my Jewish friends: Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.' Almost all of the passion that we have has come from the inspiration that we have got from the Jewish Scriptures.
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At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'
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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
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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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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
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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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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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No future without forgiveness.
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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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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Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.
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People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
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God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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