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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
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
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I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to 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.
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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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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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