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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: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
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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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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
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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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It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.
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This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.
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You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.
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We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.
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Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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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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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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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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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, How would I have wanted to be treated?
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The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.
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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human.
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