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Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
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Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.
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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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Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
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Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.
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If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.
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The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.
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God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.
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When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
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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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People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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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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