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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

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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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I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.
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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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In most, when you go to church, most churches when they have images of the good shepherd, they show Jesus carrying a nice fluffy lamb. Now fluffy little lambs don't stray from their mommy's. The sheep that will stray is the most obstreperous, troublesome one.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
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All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
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The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.
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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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