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You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Failures
Seen
Society
American
Katrina

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There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
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We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.
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Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.
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If I diminish you, I diminish myself
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others. happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.
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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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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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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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As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.
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