Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 15

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• If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

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  Speaks Out, Suffering, Want

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• Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

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  Children, Real, Educational

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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• Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

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  Justice, Diversity, Too Much

  Desmond Tutu (1985). “Hope and Suffering”, Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey home and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us.

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  Country, Struggle, Home

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• We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

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  Being Alone, Acceptance, Ready

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.

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  Rights, Lost, Apartheid

  "Desmond Tutu Turns 75". www.news24.com. October 06, 2006.

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• Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

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  Gratitude, Humility, Generosity

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• To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

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  Revenge, Self, Forgiving

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• Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration.

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  Religious, People, Goal

  "It's time to rid the world of nuclear weapons" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

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  Country, Enemy, Blame

  "Freedom and Tolerance". Speech at Cape Town Press Club, June 1995.

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• Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

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  Children, Sorry, Suffering

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.71, Random House

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• I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

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  Dust, Evil, Apartheid

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

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• You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

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  Smart, Fire, Being Smart

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• The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

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  Devastation, Landmines, Immoral

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• Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

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  Country, Lying, Islands

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• I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

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  Mean, Sunday, Squad

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

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• Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

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  Play, Symphony, Community

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• The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

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  Universe

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• I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

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  Share, Humans

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• ... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life ... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless.

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  Jobs, Children, Home

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• And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

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  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Desmond Tutu, Insisting We Are 'Made For Goodness'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 11, 2010.

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• And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.

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  People, Justice, Rainbow

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

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  Difficult, Apartheid, South

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• All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

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  Country, People, United States

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

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• And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.

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  Inspirational, Graduation, Beautiful

  "Desmond Tutu: 'And God Says to All of Us, You Are No Chicken; You Are an Eagle'". Desmond Tutu's commencement address at Brandeis University, www.beliefnet.com. 2000.

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