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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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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 are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.
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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
Desmond Tutu
You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
Desmond Tutu
Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.
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We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.
Desmond Tutu
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
Desmond Tutu
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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Human beings are fundamentally good.
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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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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.
Desmond Tutu
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
Desmond Tutu
Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.
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We must return to the fundamentals the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.
Desmond Tutu
I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
Desmond Tutu
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
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There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
Desmond Tutu
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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