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• There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

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  Home, Rivers, Ozone

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

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  Girl, Empowering, Succeed

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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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• In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.

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  Believe, What Matters, Done

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.

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  Mean, Animal, Speaks Out

  "Desmond Tutu On Animal Welfare: We Must Fight Injustice To Animals", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

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• It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

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  Future, Vision, Fossils

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

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  Forgiving, Done, Repentance

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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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• Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

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  Peace, War, Gun

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

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• The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

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  Family, Oneness, Humans

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

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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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• 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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• 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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