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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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People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
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Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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God hopes that we are going to love God back.
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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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If I diminish you, I diminish myself
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