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Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.
Desmond Tutu
We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.
Desmond Tutu
[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.
Desmond Tutu
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.
Desmond Tutu
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
Desmond Tutu
God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said I want persons who therefore have freedom.
Desmond Tutu
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
Desmond Tutu
Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.
Desmond Tutu
I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
Desmond Tutu
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.
Desmond Tutu
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
Desmond Tutu
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
Desmond Tutu
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
Desmond Tutu
Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others. happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.
Desmond Tutu
There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
Desmond Tutu
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Desmond Tutu
We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.
Desmond Tutu
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu
Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.
Desmond Tutu
God loved me before I actually was.
Desmond Tutu