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You are not an afterthought, you are 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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There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.
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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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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.
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All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.
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No future without forgiveness.
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.
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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
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I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
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People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
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Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.
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Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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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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I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.
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Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
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If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.
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