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I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.
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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