Desmond Tutu Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

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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.

• We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

  Desmond Tutu

  Black And White, Justice, Diversity

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

• There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Names, Justice, Killing

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

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Punishment, Justice

• Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.

  Desmond Tutu

  Suicide, Military, Land

  "Apartheid in the Holy Land". www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

• I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

  Desmond Tutu

  Leadership, Wisdom, Class

• We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

  Desmond Tutu

  Evil, Justice, Diversity

  1985 Speech, Mar.

• Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

  Desmond Tutu

  Peace, War, Gun

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

• I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Justice, Trying

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu Loves Pope Francis, Speaks On Gay Rights, War in Syria, Accusations Of Anti-Semitism". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

• No future without forgiveness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Racial Justice

  Desmond Tutu (2012). “No Future Without Forgiveness”, Random House

• Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Way Forward, Justice, Path

  "In Africa, a step backward on human rights" by Desmond Tutu, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2010.

• Peace without justice is an impossibility.

  Desmond Tutu

  Peace, Justice, Impossibility

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

• 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

• True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.

  Desmond Tutu

  Commitment, Rights, Ethnicity

  "Divesting From Injustice" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

• Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Growing Up, Compassion

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.86, Random House

• When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

  Desmond Tutu

  White, Diversity, Justice

• Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Diversity, Too Much

  Desmond Tutu (1985). “Hope and Suffering”, Eerdmans Publishing Company

• There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until there be first justice enjoyed by all the inhabitants of that beautiful land. The Bible knows nothing about peace without justice, for that would be crying "peace, peace, where there is no peace". God's Shalom, peace, involves inevitably righteousness, justice, wholeness, fullness of life, participation in decision-making, goodness, laughter, joy, compassion, sharing and reconciliation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Laughter, Real

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

• Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

  Desmond Tutu

  Lying, Evil, Justice

• There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Balance, Different

  "Recovering From Apartheid" by Tina Rosenberg, www.newyorker.com. November 18, 1996.

• There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fall, Justice, Accountability

• We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice

• Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Want, Dignity

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

• There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

  Desmond Tutu

  Two, Justice, Form

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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