Of course, you've got to ...

Of course, you\'ve got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can\'t just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won\'t happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.
Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.
 Desmond Tutu

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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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 Desmond Tutu
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.
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I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.
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Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.
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