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slaneman

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Desmond Tutu 360 Speech
« on: August 26, 2009, 09:42:42 PM »
Desmond Tutu speech on the video screen at the shows---

"The same people who marched for civil rights in the United States are the same people who protested Apartheid in South Africa; who are the same people who worked for peace in Ireland, and are the same people who fought against debts slavery in the Jubilee Year 2000, who are the same beautiful people that I see when I look around this place tonight in 360 degrees.
 
We are those people. We are the same person. Because our voices were heard, millions more of our brothers and sisters are alive, thanks to the miracle aids drugs and malaria drugs. Ah, they will be doctors, they will be nurses, they will be scientists, who will live to solve great problems.
Yes, there are many obstacles. Of course, there are always roadblocks in the way of justice, but God will put a wind at our back and a rising road ahead, if we work with each other as one…one…"

Desmond Tutu