Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 18

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• There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

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  Levels, Poverty, South

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

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  Trustworthy, Interest, Humans

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

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  Memories, Attitude, Healing

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

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  Forgiving, Would Be, Mercy

  Source: jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com

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• One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.

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  Running, Self, Years

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• God hopes that we are going to love God back.

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  God Love

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

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  People, Leader, World

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Our parents will maybe sometimes when they are upset with us and we have been troublesome say something like "Mommy really doesn't like a naughty child." And we think that we have to earn the approval, earn the love of our parents. And then we transfer it to God and think we have to earn... We don't have to earn it! God loves us.

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  Children, Thinking, Naughty

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting amongst each other.

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  Mistake, Fighting, Years

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.

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  Down And, Bondage

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

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  Numbers, People, Giving

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

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  Environment, Failing, Worst

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

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  Doe, Discrimination, Sin

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

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  Mother, Religious, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the world, then they must participate in political affairs because they are alive. And if they don't act neither as the leaven or the salt or the light, then things can go horribly badly wrong.

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  Religious, Believe, Light

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• You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

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  Slavery, Argument, Justification

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

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• You will find that the Bible, if you want it to, will justify many things. St. Paul had a very male chauvinistic view of women. He would say things like women must not talk in church, must cover their heads, they mustn't talk and must remember that it was a woman who first tempted and this whole mess started because women messed us up. So you can read it in such a way that it justifies polygamy.

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  Views, Church, Way

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

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• When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between the cross, an instrument of suffering that procured our reconciliation with God, and its use as a symbol for nefarious attacks on black people. But they believe that they are being obedient to God because they can read things that they see.

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  Believe, Thinking, Kkk

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

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• People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

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  People, Water, Black

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

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• Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

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  Israel, Land, Political

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

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• There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing to themselves. Yes, they may at the moment have incredible power and are supported almost unconditionally by especially America, but most of the West as well. Yet what they are doing is contrary to the best teaching and highest teachings of their faith.

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  Teaching, Israel, America

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

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• Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

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  Justice, Want, Dignity

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

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• The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

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  Want, Arms, Dignity

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

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• As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.

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  Christian, Believe, Sanctity

  "Desmond Tutu Joins Advocates To Call For Right To Assisted Death". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, ksmu.org. January 4, 2017.

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• A leader is someone you are not disappointed in placing trust in. When that person makes suggestions, you are inclined to trust [them]. Often it is people who have been there [in a similar situation to the people he or she is leading]. They would generally be people who are ready to take the risks themselves. Most leaders would be people who don't ever give commands and remain at home and let the foot soldiers be the ones who bear the brunt.

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  Home, Feet, People

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