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Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

Desmond Tutu

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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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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.
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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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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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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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There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.
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No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
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To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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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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No future without forgiveness.
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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The world needs a revolution led by women.
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I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say our prophets.
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We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.
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Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.
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God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
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The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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