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We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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