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When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.

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
Lover
Strive
Lovers
Please
Things
Love

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We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.
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Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.
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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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If I diminish you, I diminish myself
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Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
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Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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No future without forgiveness.
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Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
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Let girls be girls and not brides
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The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral
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Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water and each drop counts, each one of us can do our little bit where we are. Those little bits can come together and almost overwhelm the world. Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
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God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
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My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, I love you. I care for you, enormously. And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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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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When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.
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The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
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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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