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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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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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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa and the Africans know that.
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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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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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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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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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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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Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.
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God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.
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A person is a person through other persons you can't be human in isolation you are human only in relationships.
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Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future
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I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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Peace without justice is an impossibility.
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Human beings are fundamentally good.
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We can only be human together.
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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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