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Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration.

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.
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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
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People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
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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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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.
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Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.
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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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We can only be human together.
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People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights. No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!
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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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