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The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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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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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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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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Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.
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God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.
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