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Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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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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I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.
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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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We must return to the fundamentals the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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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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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.
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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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Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.
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I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
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As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
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I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.
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