Desmond Tutu Quotes About South Africa

Quotes about: South Africa

• At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Home, Black And White

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Peacemaker in a Diverse Nation". www.csmonitor.com. October 26, 1994.

• In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Government, Long

• I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

  Desmond Tutu

  Racist, Territory, Apartheid

• Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
  
  [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

  Desmond Tutu

  Voice, Addresses, Foundation

• God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Done, Middle East

  Source: sojo.net

• We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

  Desmond Tutu

  Climate, Use, Tactics

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

• It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

  Desmond Tutu

  Blessing, Men, South

• Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Favors, Should

  Los Angeles Times, letter to the editor by L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley, May 13, 1985.

• In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Children, Rights

• There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

  Desmond Tutu

  Levels, Poverty, South

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dark, World, Beacons

  "Truth and reconciliation". BBC's "Focus on Africa", January-March 2000.

• People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Water, Black

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

• When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

  Desmond Tutu

  Tables, Cups, Crash

  The New York Times, January 3, 1985.

• 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.

• It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

  Desmond Tutu

  Difficult, Apartheid, South

• When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Land, Practice

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

• The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.

  Desmond Tutu

  White, Black, Speak

  Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

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