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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
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All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
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Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.
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People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
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A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
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There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.
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The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.
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There is room for everyone there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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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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You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.
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I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.
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Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
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The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
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A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.
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I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.
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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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