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To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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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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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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As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.
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We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.
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Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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