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I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
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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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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
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I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.
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All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
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We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.
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If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
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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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I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
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God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
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We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.
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People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
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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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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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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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God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.
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