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Peace without justice is an impossibility.

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
Impossibility
Justice
Peace
Without

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My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, I love you. I care for you, enormously. And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.
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One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
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It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
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No future without forgiveness.
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