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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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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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When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.
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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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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
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Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.
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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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