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Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
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Restorative justice says No, the offense affected a relationship and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.
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Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
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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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As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.
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God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.
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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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It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future
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In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over.
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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