“You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.”

—  Desmond Tutu

Wallenberg Lecture (2008)

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South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Priz… 1931

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