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Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

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
War
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Impossibility
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Land
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