Desmond Tutu Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

  Desmond Tutu

  Xenophobia, Racism, Slavery

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.51, Random House

• 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

• You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are certain parts which you have to say no to. The Bible accepted slavery. St Paul said women should not speak in church at all and there are people who have used that to say women should not be ordained. There are many things that you shouldn't accept.

  Desmond Tutu

  Book, People, Church

• You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

  Desmond Tutu

  Slavery, Argument, Justification

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

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