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Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
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To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
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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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God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
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