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Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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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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Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
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It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?
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When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, Now is that political or social? He said, I feed you. Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
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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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A person is a person through other persons you can't be human in isolation you are human only in relationships.
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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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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.
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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
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When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.
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There is room for everyone there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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