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I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

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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Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.
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If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.
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The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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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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True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.
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The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
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Anything war can do, peace can do better.
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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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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.
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My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
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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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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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