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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: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
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People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights. No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!
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When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.
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We can only be human together.
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Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
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Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
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Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
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Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say Oh yes, I violate human rights. They all claim oh no, we respect human rights even when they are doing the most egregious things.
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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
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Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.
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Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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We need other human beings in order to be human.
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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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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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Do your little bit of good where you are.
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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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