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It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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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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Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.
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If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
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Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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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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Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
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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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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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It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.
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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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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
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For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
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Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.
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