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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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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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Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
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We must return to the fundamentals the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.
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Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
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If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.
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We can only be human together.
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Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
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I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.
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People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
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I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.
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You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
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We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.
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True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.
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The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
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I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.
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Do your little bit of good where you are.
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