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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: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
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It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
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But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
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If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
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I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.
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Don't raise your voice, improve your argument. [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
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Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
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If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
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[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.
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We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.
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The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
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