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I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
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I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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Being formed into a nation takes some doing.
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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
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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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Let girls be girls and not brides
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Anything war can do, peace can do better.
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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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Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.
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Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
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Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.
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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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