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Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

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
Attitude
Spirit
Heart
Time
Catharsis
Cleansing
Attitudes
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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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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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Do your little bit of good where you are.
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There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
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There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.
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We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
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Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
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You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
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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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Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
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Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, Do you remember what happened to you? Then they clobber you and say, You are anti-Semitic.
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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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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
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The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
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Forgiving is not forgetting its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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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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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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