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

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
American
Katrina
Failures
Seen
Society

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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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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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Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.
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There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
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All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
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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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Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.
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We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.
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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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There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
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You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
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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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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.
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