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If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!

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
Everyone
Priority
Give
Birthday
Must
Priorities
Giving
Visible
Children
Vulnerable
Every
Invisible
Make
Birth
Child
Registration

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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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Nothing is too much trouble for Love.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said I want persons who therefore have freedom.
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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