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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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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 things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.
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I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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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.
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To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
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Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
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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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We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.
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Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
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One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
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The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
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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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I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.
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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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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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To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.
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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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