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• Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

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  Blood, Digestion, Pressure

  ""Truth and reconciliation"". BBC Focus on Africa magazine, January-March 2000.

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• Peace without justice is an impossibility.

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  Peace, Justice, Impossibility

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• If we succeed in empowering girls, we'll succeed in everything else.

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  Girl, Empowering, Succeed

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• Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

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  Inspirational, Peace, Ordinary Extraordinary

  "Made for Goodness" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many wars of religion that were fought, the cruelty of Christians in burning what they believed to be witches and burning heretics, and then very recently they were responsible for the Holocaust... it was Christians.

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  Christian, War, Holocaust

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.

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  Land, Done, Middle East

  Source: sojo.net

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• We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free

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  Bondage

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• I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

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  Girl, Commitment, Want

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• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

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  Integrity, Character, Integrity And Character

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.

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  Names, Justice, Killing

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• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'

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  Freedom, Looks, Use

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

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  Revenge, Military, 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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• The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

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  Nature, Children, World

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• Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
  
  [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

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  Voice, Addresses, Foundation

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• We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Sunset

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• Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

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  Nice, Humanity, Needs

  New York Times, October 19, 1984.

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• Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

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  Forgiveness, Existence, Humans

  "Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul". Book by Dalene Fuller Rogers and Harold G Koenig, 2002.

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• Without forgiveness, there is no future.

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  Change For The Better, Vengeance

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

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• God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'

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  Knows

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• There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

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  Elephants, Politics, Way

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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  Memorial Day, Peace, Freedom

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• It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am not as good as someone else in some ways and being comfortable with who I am as I am, I spend all my time denigrating you, trying to cut you down to my self-perceived size. The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

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  Cutting, Self, Who I Am

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• We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

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  Black And White, Justice, Diversity

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

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  Punishment, Justice, Retributive Justice

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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