Desmond Tutu Quotes About Injustice

Quotes about: Injustice

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  If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

  Desmond Tutu

  Bullying, Peace, Elephants

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 22, 2014

• 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.

• I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Animal, Speaks Out

  "Desmond Tutu On Animal Welfare: We Must Fight Injustice To Animals", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

• To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Injustice, Situation

• People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

  Desmond Tutu

  Business, Ties, People

  "We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2014.

• To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

  Desmond Tutu

  Support, Sides, Injustice

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

• If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hands, People, Injustice And Oppression

• As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dance, War, Evil

• It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

  Desmond Tutu

  Real, Europe, Injustice And Oppression

  University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture, October 29, 2008.

• When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

  Desmond Tutu

  Competition, Prejudice, Looks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Faith, Laughter, Caring

• If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Leader, Risk

• This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

  Desmond Tutu

  Lying, Mean, People

  "No Future Without Forgiveness". Book by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

• Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Easter, Hate, Justice

  Desmond Tutu (1982). “Crying in the wilderness: the struggle for justice in South Africa”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

• Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even the global downturn and climate change. Diseases like AIDS, TB and malaria cannot be tackled without adequate resources. So you see everything is connected. In order to address any major cause of human suffering, we have to work together across many fronts.

  Desmond Tutu

  Order, Competition, Suffering

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love. That you and I and all of us are incredible. I mean, we really are remarkable things. That we are, as a matter of fact, made for goodness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Heart, Mean, Reality

  "A God of Surprises". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. March 20, 2014.

• When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.

  Desmond Tutu

  Pain, Numbness, Guilt

• Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, People, Able

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

• The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fighting, Animal, Abuse

  "Desmond Tutu On Animal Welfare: We Must Fight Injustice To Animals". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

• What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Roots, Impact, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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