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God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Anybody
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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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Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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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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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.
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I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.
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We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.
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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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People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
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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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