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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.

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
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa and the Africans know that.
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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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Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
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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!
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
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Let girls be girls and not brides
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There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.
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Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.
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We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.
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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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No future without forgiveness.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
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