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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

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
Anything
Warms
Smart
Fire

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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.
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We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
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If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!
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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
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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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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
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Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
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There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
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Do your little bit of good where you are.
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People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
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There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.
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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 very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
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