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My vote is my secret.

Desmond Tutu

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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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The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.
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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human.
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People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.
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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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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.
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If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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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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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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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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Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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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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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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Forgiving is not forgetting its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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