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I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
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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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There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.
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Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
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The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.
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We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
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To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.
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Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.
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Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?
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There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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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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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
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