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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.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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God loved me before I actually was.
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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
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We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.
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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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We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
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Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.
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Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.
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