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People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights. No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
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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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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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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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
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Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
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Forgiving is not forgetting its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
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Peace without justice is an impossibility.
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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
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Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.
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I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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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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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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