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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
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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
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Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?
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People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.
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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
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You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
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Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
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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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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
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God says, Please, please help me realize this dream. And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.
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I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.
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I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa and the Africans know that.
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Being formed into a nation takes some doing.
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It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.
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