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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

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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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.
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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.
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As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
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People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.
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I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
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As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.
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Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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