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There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
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Anything war can do, peace can do better.
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We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community.
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No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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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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Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
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We must return to the fundamentals the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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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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When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, Now is that political or social? He said, I feed you. Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
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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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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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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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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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