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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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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
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In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
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Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many wars of religion that were fought, the cruelty of Christians in burning what they believed to be witches and burning heretics, and then very recently they were responsible for the Holocaust... it was Christians.
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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Let girls be girls and not brides
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There is room for everyone there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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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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I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.
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I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.
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Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
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The world needs a revolution led by women.
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