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I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water and each drop counts, each one of us can do our little bit where we are. Those little bits can come together and almost overwhelm the world. Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
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Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.
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For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
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I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
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Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.
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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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One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.
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Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
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The world needs a revolution led by women.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
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Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.
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One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
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Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
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In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over.
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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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