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I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

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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We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
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In most, when you go to church, most churches when they have images of the good shepherd, they show Jesus carrying a nice fluffy lamb. Now fluffy little lambs don't stray from their mommy's. The sheep that will stray is the most obstreperous, troublesome one.
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We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
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Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
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God is not a diversion.
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People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
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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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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
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The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.
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A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.
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Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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