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As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
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There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.
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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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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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We need other human beings in order to be human.
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I have often said to my Jewish friends: Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.' Almost all of the passion that we have has come from the inspiration that we have got from the Jewish Scriptures.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.
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There is room for everyone there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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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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God is not a diversion.
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My vote is my secret.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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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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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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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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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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Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.
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You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
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