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We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.
Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
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Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
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Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
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As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
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Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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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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Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.
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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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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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Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.
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That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
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To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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We must return to the fundamentals the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.
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God is not a diversion.
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The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
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