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When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.

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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
Unconscionable
Races
Starts
Fire
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Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.
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In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
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When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
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You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!
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You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
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My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma
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I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.
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Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.
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I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.
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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.
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The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
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Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
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