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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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  Moments, Recalls, Ifs

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• You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

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  Sides, Oppressed, Oppressors

  "Desmond Tutu is one of a rare breed" by Cath Elliott, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water and each drop counts, each one of us can do our little bit where we are. Those little bits can come together and almost overwhelm the world. Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.

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  Thinking, Oasis, Sea

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• Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, 'My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.' We belong in a bundle of life.

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  Caring, Ubuntu, Essence

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• We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.

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  Fighting, Oil, People

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• Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.

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  Suicide, Military, Land

  "Apartheid in the Holy Land". www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

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• Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

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  Ignorance, Mean, Rights

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• Goodness is stronger than evil.
  Love is stronger than hate.
  Light is stronger than darkness.
  Life is stronger than death.
  Victory is ours through Him who loved us.

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  Peace, Hate, Love Is

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• Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

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  Voice, People, Giving

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• We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

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  Compassion, World, Goodness

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• It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

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  Compassion, Empathy, Soul

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• As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

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  Dance, War, Evil

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• Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action.

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  Thinking, Compassion, People

  "Desmond Tutu on Compassion". Interview with Marc Ian Barasch, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2005.

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• If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

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  Real, Development, World

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• Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.

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  Mean, Thinking, Ubuntu

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• We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

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  Earth, Interest, Humans

  "We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2014.

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• A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

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  Knowing, Ubuntu, Self

  Desmond Tutu (2012). “No Future Without Forgiveness”, p.35, Random House

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• Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

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  Mean, Forgiving, Doe

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• God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

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  Love Is, Sides, Conflict

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

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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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  Love, Generations, Goes On

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• True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

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  Commitment, Rights, Ethnicity

  "Divesting From Injustice" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

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• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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  Bullying, Justice, Sides

  "The secrets of a peacemaker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

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  Military, Silence, Community

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• We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.

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  Christian, Mother, Children

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