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Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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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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You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.
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Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.
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I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
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True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.
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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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The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
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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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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!
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We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.
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Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.
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Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
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My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
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All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.
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