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Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.
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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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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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I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
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Nothing is too much trouble for Love.
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Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
Desmond Tutu
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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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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Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.
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We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.
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Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
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People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa and the Africans know that.
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People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.
Desmond Tutu
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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When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, Now is that political or social? He said, I feed you. Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
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The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral
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God hopes that we are going to love God back.
Desmond Tutu
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.
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