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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.
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Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
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The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
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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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You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
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We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.
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