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I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

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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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
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All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.
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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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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
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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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It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.
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The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.
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God is not a diversion.
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To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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No future without forgiveness.
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