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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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Persons
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I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
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Restorative justice says No, the offense affected a relationship and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.
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Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.
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God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.
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There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.
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Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.
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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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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
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There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.
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All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
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A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.
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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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I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
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God says, Please, please help me realize this dream. And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.
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