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Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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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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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.
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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
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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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As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.
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God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said I want persons who therefore have freedom.
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.
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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.
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All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
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I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong
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Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
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Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
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