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It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
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Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
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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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Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
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We need other human beings in order to be human.
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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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Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
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I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, How would I have wanted to be treated?
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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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If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
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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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Anything war can do, peace can do better.
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