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The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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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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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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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
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It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?
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Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.
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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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God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.
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Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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The world needs a revolution led by women.
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Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future
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I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.
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God loved me before I actually was.
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You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
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