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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
Goodness
Kindness
Bits
Littles
Little
Good

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I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
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Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
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It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.
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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.
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Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction we are already feeling the effects.
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
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We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
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People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
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You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
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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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In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.
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