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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
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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No future without forgiveness.
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I have often said to my Jewish friends: Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.' Almost all of the passion that we have has come from the inspiration that we have got from the Jewish Scriptures.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
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Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
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No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
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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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We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community.
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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.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.
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I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.
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My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
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People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
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