Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 11

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• I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

  Desmond Tutu

  Idols, Long, Performances

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

  Desmond Tutu

  Our Words, Lost Trust, Lost

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy and often you have to carry an albatross. And it won't happen until people are able to have a certain level of trust and try to speak to each other, not as caricatures but as people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Past, People, Trying

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

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• 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.

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  Lying, Mean, People

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

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• I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Looks, Imagine

  Source: sojo.net

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• An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

  Desmond Tutu

  Abusive Relationship, Easy, Ends

  Source: jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com

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• God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Knows

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• I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so -- as a sundowner. Except, of course, the sun never goes down there. Oh, man, this heaven is going to take some getting used to.

  Desmond Tutu

  Men, Heaven, Coke

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• It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners."

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Political, Saws

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Blessing, Laughing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Consider what we sometimes do with our children: We imbue them with this sense, very early on, that they have got to succeed. We are not content that they just do well, they have got to wipe the floor with the opposition.

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  Children, Wipe, Succeed

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Believe, Oneness

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• Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

  Desmond Tutu

  Punishment, Justice, Retributive Justice

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and I will do anything, anything up to giving up the most precious thing I could say I have, my son, to prove I love you. Please come back."

  Desmond Tutu

  Giving Up, Real, Love You

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• 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.

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  People, Leader, Risk

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• The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, World, Awful

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on.

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Mean, Hatred

  "After Ferguson we need a national commission on justice" by Donna Brazile, www.cnn.com. December 1, 2014.

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• Let girls be girls and not brides

  Desmond Tutu

  Girl, Brides

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• Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Blue, Sky

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't.

  Desmond Tutu

  Snuff, Splits, Next

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• The world needs a revolution led by women.

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  Needs, World, Revolution

  The David A. Morse Lecture: A Conversation with Desmond Tutu, www.cfr.org. March 8, 2010.

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

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  White, Diversity, Justice

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• Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dream, Children, Play

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

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• Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

  Desmond Tutu

  Purpose, Life Is, Heartbeat

  Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu (2010). “Made For Goodness: And why this makes all the difference”, p.75, Random House

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• Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

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  Nice, Ubuntu, Want

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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