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Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu

(1931–2021) · South African Archbishop

Was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

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