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Famous Desmond Tutu Quotes
“As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.”
“That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.”
“We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.”
“There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.”
“There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.”
“As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.”
“When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.”
“Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.”
“Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.”
“Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.”
“Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.”
“You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.”
“Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.”
“We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.”
“We are made by God, we are made like God, we are made for God.”