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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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Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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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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We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.
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I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
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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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Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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I don't preach a social gospel I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.
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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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Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.
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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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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.
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