Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 12

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• Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

  Desmond Tutu

  Eye, Past, Doors

  Report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission foreword (1998)

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• All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fear, Mean, Acting

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.88, Random House

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• As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

  Desmond Tutu

  Evil, Atrocities, Capacity

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• 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.

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• The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hands, Evil, Division

  Desmond Tutu (1982). “The Divine Intention: Presentation”

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• We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.

  Desmond Tutu

  Pain, Ideas, Age

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• 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.

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• In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Umpires, White

  Guardian Weekly, London, April 8, 1984.

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• There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.

  Desmond Tutu

  Waking, Pretending, Difficult

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• The way God operates is on the basis of love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Way, Bases

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self, States, Enjoy

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

  Desmond Tutu

  Giving, Generations, Greatest Gifts

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• When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, People, Evil

  Interview with Nick Stadlen, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

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• Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiving, Perpetrators, Wells

  Source: jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com

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• Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other things, you wouldn't spend time listening to him. But people actually don't listen to what he's saying, in a way. They are listening to him because he has communicated that he is ready to put his life on the line.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Listening, Looks

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• Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.

  Desmond Tutu

  Response, Our Lives

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.

  Desmond Tutu

  Love Is, Upset, Trying

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• A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry.
  It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.

  Desmond Tutu

  Opportunity, Giving, Worry

  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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• I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.

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  Memories, Past, People

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• I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote...

  Desmond Tutu

  Years, Land, Racism

  The Guardian, April 8, 1984.

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• My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

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  Love You, Race, White

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• As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.

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  Forgiving, May, Victim

  Source: jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com

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• There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart beating with love. That you and I and all of us are incredible. I mean, we really are remarkable things. That we are, as a matter of fact, made for goodness.

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  Heart, Mean, Reality

  "A God of Surprises". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. March 20, 2014.

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• I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong

  Desmond Tutu

  Commitment, Law, Doubt

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• What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Roots, Impact, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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