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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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Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
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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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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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My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, I love you. I care for you, enormously. And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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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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The world needs a revolution led by women.
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
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Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
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The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
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We must return to the fundamentals the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.
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I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.
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