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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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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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I have often said to my Jewish friends: Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.' Almost all of the passion that we have has come from the inspiration that we have got from the Jewish Scriptures.
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Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
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All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
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We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.
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My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
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God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
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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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I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say our prophets.
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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Let girls be girls and not brides
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For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.
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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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