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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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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
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I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say our prophets.
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To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.
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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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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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God hopes that we are going to love God back.
Desmond Tutu
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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Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.
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Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
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There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.
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All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
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People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
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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If I diminish you, I diminish myself
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu
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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The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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