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Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

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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Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
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If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.
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My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, I love you. I care for you, enormously. And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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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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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
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