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I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

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
Humans
Participate
Belong
Share
Human

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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.
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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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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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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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Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through Him who loved us.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others. happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
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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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Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.
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People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
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If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
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To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.
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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop 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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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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Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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