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God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.

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
Incredible
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Persons

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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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No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
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There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
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I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, How would I have wanted to be treated?
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Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
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It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.
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We need other human beings in order to be human.
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I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.
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You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat meaning and purpose are the life of life.
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We can only be human together.
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
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God is not a diversion.
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God loved me before I actually was.
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For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.
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Nothing is too much trouble for Love.
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