Desmond Tutu Quotes About Death Penalty

Quotes about: Death Penalty

• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Justice, Sides

  "The secrets of a peacemaker". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

• To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Punishment, Justice

• The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Reverence For Life, Death Penalty

• I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Death Penalty, Obscenity

• I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Usa, Rights

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