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• That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

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  Laughter, Justice, Texture

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• We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.

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  People, Environmental, Friendly

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• The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death... Choose life."

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  Beautiful, Home, Caring

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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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  Fall, Justice, Accountability

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• There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

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  Race, Views, Rooms

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• Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

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  Law, People, Able

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• I often accompanied my father. I really liked riding with him on his bicycle on Saturdays. He was very fond of fishing. I don’t think I liked fishing. I mean, you had to sit quietly and still, but I enjoyed the ride. And it was fun, it was fun. I mean, as I say, you didn’t go around lugging a deep sense of resentment. We knew, yes, we were deprived. It wasn’t the same thing for white kids, but it was as full a life as you could make it. I mean, we made toys for ourselves with wires, making cars, and you really were exploding with joy!

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  Fun, Father, Mean

  "Forging Equality in South Africa". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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• It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

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  Godly, Faithful, May

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• Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.

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  Xenophobia, Race, Years

  Interview with Sonja Steptoe, content.time.com. October 17, 2006.

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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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  Suicide, Doe, Bombers

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• The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

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  Children, Beloved Wife, Tea

  "South Africa's Tutu announces retirement". www.cnn.com. July 22, 2010.

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• You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

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  Laughter, Caring, Perfect

  University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture, October 29, 2008.

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• We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

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  Book, Competition, Treasure

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• Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.

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  Others Happiness, Recipes, Want

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• Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

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  Recipes, Want, Happiness And Success

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• When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.

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  Mother, Children, Night

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• We are made for loving.

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  Made

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• Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

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  Nursing, Grudge

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• People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable

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  People, Causes, Unstoppable

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• There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.

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  Care, Energy, Use

  The Daily Express, October 29, 2008.

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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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  Dream, Helping, Realizing

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• I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.

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  Believe, People, Goal

  Desmond Tutu, John Webster (1982). “Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa”

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• We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.

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  Justice, Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice

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• I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

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  Worship, Hell, Homophobic

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• It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

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  Country, Enemy, Blame

  "Freedom and Tolerance". Speech at Cape Town Press Club, June 1995.

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