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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: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
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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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Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa and the Africans know that.
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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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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.
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I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
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People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
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The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
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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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We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
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Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
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There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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