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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
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Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.
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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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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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There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
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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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I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
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Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.
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Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.
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We need other human beings in order to be human.
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To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
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This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa and the Africans know that.
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Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
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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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There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.
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I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
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