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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

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
Anyone
Freedom
Live
Feel
Feels
Inferior
Make
Inferiors
Never
Dignity
Life
Meant

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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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