Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 16

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• We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

  Desmond Tutu

  Book, Competition, Treasure

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• We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.

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  Peace, Heaven, Needs

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• True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

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  Nursing, Past, People

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• I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

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  Worship, Hell, Homophobic

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• For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

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  White, Racism, People

  The New York Times, January 3, 1985.

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• We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.

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  Justice, Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice

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• I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking

  "The secrets of a peacemaker" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

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  Laughter, Caring, Perfect

  University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture, October 29, 2008.

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• The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

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  Children, Beloved Wife, Tea

  "South Africa's Tutu announces retirement". www.cnn.com. July 22, 2010.

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• The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.

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  Suicide, Doe, Bombers

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• Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

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  Life, People, Wonderful

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.97, Random House

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• I am because other people are.

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  People

  "God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times". Book by Desmond Tutu, 2003.

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• Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

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  Lying, Evil, Justice

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• Hate has no place in the house of God.

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  Hate, House, House Of God

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• Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

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  Easter, Hate, Justice

  Desmond Tutu (1982). “Crying in the wilderness: the struggle for justice in South Africa”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• No one is self-sufficient.
  And it's not a one-way thing-
  -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.

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  Self, Generosity, Way

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• We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.

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  Dog, Irrelevance, Government

  Sunday Times Magazine, June 08, 1986.

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• That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

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  Laughter, Justice, Texture

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• There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

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  Fall, Justice, Accountability

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• The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

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  Yesterday, People, Looks

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

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• Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.

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  Xenophobia, Race, Years

  Interview with Sonja Steptoe, content.time.com. October 17, 2006.

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• It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

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  Godly, Faithful, May

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• 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.

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  Country, Children, Rights

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• Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

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  Keys, Community, Problem

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• I often accompanied my father. I really liked riding with him on his bicycle on Saturdays. He was very fond of fishing. I don’t think I liked fishing. I mean, you had to sit quietly and still, but I enjoyed the ride. And it was fun, it was fun. I mean, as I say, you didn’t go around lugging a deep sense of resentment. We knew, yes, we were deprived. It wasn’t the same thing for white kids, but it was as full a life as you could make it. I mean, we made toys for ourselves with wires, making cars, and you really were exploding with joy!

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  Fun, Father, Mean

  "Forging Equality in South Africa". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 12, 2004.

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