Desmond Tutu Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, 'My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.' We belong in a bundle of life.

  Desmond Tutu

  Caring, Ubuntu, Essence

• Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

  Desmond Tutu

  Powerful, Reality, Doe

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 1999.

• There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

  Desmond Tutu

  Race, Views, Rooms

• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Religious, Unique, Differences

• Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Ubuntu, Oneness, Humanity

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