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Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say Oh yes, I violate human rights. They all claim oh no, we respect human rights even when they are doing the most egregious things.
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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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.
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Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
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We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.
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We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.
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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
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I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.
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My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, I love you. I care for you, enormously. And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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