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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
Humans
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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
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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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There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community.
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The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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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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People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.
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Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
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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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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration.
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Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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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!
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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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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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