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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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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People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.
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To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
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God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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