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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.
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In most, when you go to church, most churches when they have images of the good shepherd, they show Jesus carrying a nice fluffy lamb. Now fluffy little lambs don't stray from their mommy's. The sheep that will stray is the most obstreperous, troublesome one.
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There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.
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Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
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We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
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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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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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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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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
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If I diminish you, I diminish myself
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Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.
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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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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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