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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
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It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.
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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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Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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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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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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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.
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Anything war can do, peace can do better.
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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
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