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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
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
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To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.
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Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.
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We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.
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No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.
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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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Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
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Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
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We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
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God hopes that we are going to love God back.
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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The world needs a revolution led by women.
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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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[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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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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