Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 10

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• 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.

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  Black And White, Justice, Diversity

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

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• There can be no healing without truth.

  Desmond Tutu

  Healing

  South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Desmond Tutu (1998). “Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa report”, Commission

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• When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

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  People, Want

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• I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.

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  Thinking, Feet, Fire

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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

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  Evil, Justice, Diversity

  1985 Speech, Mar.

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• It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am not as good as someone else in some ways and being comfortable with who I am as I am, I spend all my time denigrating you, trying to cut you down to my self-perceived size. The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.

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  Cutting, Self, Who I Am

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• We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

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  Principles, Speak, Reconciliation

  Desmond Tutu, John Webster (1982). “Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa”

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• Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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  Hate, Guy, Leader

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• 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.

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  Land, Done, Middle East

  Source: sojo.net

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• A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

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  Doe, Cacophony, Our Lives

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• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

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  Integrity, Character, Integrity And Character

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

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• Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

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  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Special

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• Without forgiveness, there is no future.

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  Change For The Better, Vengeance

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Dr. Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

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• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'

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  Freedom, Looks, Use

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

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

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  Names, Justice, Killing

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

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  Revenge, Punishment, Justice

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• If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.

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  Worship, Homophobic, Ifs

  "Tutu Slams Sexuality 'Obsessed' Church" by Jennifer Gold, www.christianpost.com. November 18, 2007.

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• People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

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  People, Able, Cruelty

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

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  Empowerment, Black, Majority

  "Tutu says Mbeki enriching few at expense of poor" by Andrew Meldrum, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2004.

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• Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

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  Yield, Moments, Lifetime

  Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu (2010). “Made For Goodness: And why this makes all the difference”, p.72, Random House

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• No future without forgiveness.

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  Justice, Racial Justice

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

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• You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

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  Fighting, Role Models, Example

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• There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

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  Peace, Gun, Missing

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• I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person.

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  Jesus, Christ, Lord

  "God's Mission in the World : An Ecumenical Christian Study Guide on Global Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals". 2006.

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• I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

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  Violence, Knows

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com.

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