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Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights. No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!
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The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
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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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We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.
Desmond Tutu
Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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We need other human beings in order to be human.
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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 am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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No future without forgiveness.
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Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?
Desmond Tutu
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.
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Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.
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[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.
Desmond Tutu
Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
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