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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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Violence
Whatever
Religion
Adherents

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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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Restorative justice says No, the offense affected a relationship and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.
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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
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The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral
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Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, Do you remember what happened to you? Then they clobber you and say, You are anti-Semitic.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
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Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.
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People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
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Let girls be girls and not brides
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We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.
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There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa and the Africans know that.
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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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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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God is not a diversion.
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