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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
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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.
Desmond Tutu
We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
Desmond Tutu
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.
Desmond Tutu
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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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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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
Desmond Tutu
If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.
Desmond Tutu
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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God is not a diversion.
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Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
Desmond Tutu
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
Desmond Tutu
There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
Desmond Tutu
How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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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.
Desmond Tutu
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.
Desmond Tutu
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.
Desmond Tutu
Restorative justice says No, the offense affected a relationship and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.
Desmond Tutu
Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.
Desmond Tutu