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• In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

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  Europe, Bows, Horror

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• In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

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  Mean, Government, Long

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• We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition.

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  Religious, Unique, Differences

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• No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

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  People, Determined, Impossible

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• For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.

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  Pain, Going Away, Causes

  Source: jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com

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• I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.

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  Race, Color, Visions Of The Future

  Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

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• Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

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  Mother, Boys, Men

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• We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

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  Diversity, Celebrating Diversity, Universe

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.49, Random House

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• In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

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  Powerful, Grace, Encounters

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• You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

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  Mean, Ubuntu, Empathy

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• To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

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  Loss, Forgiving, Coins

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• When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

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  Jesus, People, Political

  "God's Mission in the World: An Ecumenical Christian Study Guide on Global Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals". The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2006.

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• You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

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  Crowds, Standing Out, Shoulders

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• Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says there are no outsiders - black, white, yellow, short, tall, young, old, rich, poor, gay, lesbian, straight - everyone. All belong. And God says, I have only you to help me realize my dream. Help me.

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  Dream, Gay, Hands

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• A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.

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  Jealousy, Blessing, Knowing

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• We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

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  Addiction, Fuel, Fossils

  "Heirs to Rockefeller oil fortune divest from fossil fuels over climate change" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

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• A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

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  Persons

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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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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  Spiritual, Ordinary, Hopeless

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• It may seem daunting, but I am a prisoner of hope. We are more connected than ever before, we have more knowledge, and there are solutions if we work together. Today's technology is a great asset in encouraging global cooperation and understanding.

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  Technology, Understanding, Together

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people. We can be human only together.

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  Country, Military, People

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial part of human life in which God's writ does not run. If it is not God's, then whose is it? Who is in charge if not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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  Running, Jesus, Father

  Desmond Tutu, Mothobi Mutloatse, John Webster (1984). “Hope and suffering: sermons and speeches”, W.B. Eerdmans, 1984

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• We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

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  God, Squash, People

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs, p. 255, 2004.

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• Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

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  Climate, Earth, Defence

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• How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

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  Soccer, Teamwork, Orchestra

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.50, Random House

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• Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.

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  Spiritual, Brother, Children

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