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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.

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.
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Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.
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Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say Oh yes, I violate human rights. They all claim oh no, we respect human rights even when they are doing the most egregious things.
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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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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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction we are already feeling the effects.
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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
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Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
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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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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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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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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
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Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others. happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.
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My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
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