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Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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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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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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No future without forgiveness.
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God loved me before I actually was.
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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We must return to the fundamentals the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.
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Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.
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You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!
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All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
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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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True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
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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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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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I don't preach a social gospel I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.
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God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
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I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.
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Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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