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You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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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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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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Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
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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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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
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To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.
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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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Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.
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Restorative justice says No, the offense affected a relationship and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.
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A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
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The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
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In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
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Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.
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We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.
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It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows.
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