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You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!

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
Equilibrium
Revenge
Asks
Happens
Enough
Never
Think
Thinking
Restored

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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.
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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
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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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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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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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Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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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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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
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People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights. No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!
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Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
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