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To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

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
Remain
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Complicit
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Injustice

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