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If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

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
Wells
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Love
Life
Generations
Loved
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Death

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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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This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
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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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Being formed into a nation takes some doing.
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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
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One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
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Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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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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Human beings are fundamentally good.
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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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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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Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa and the Africans know that.
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Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
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I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.
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It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.
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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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