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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.
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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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Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration.
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It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?
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Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
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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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Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.
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To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
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God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.
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God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said I want persons who therefore have freedom.
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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
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Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.
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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
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I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.
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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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Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
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I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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