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Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through Him who loved us.

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
Evil
Hate
Goodness
Death
Victory
Light
Stronger
Love
Darkness
Life
Loved
Humanity
Peace

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Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
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In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
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I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.
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But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
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We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.
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I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
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We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.
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We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
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I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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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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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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