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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.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
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One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.
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In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.
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