Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 19

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• Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Notion, Persons

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, People, Abuse

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.

  Desmond Tutu

  Infinite, Paradox, Made

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• [Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.

  Desmond Tutu

  Taken, Air, Pope

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• If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.

  Desmond Tutu

  Giving, Live Your Life, Victim

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Military, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

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  Long, People, Giving

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of history, you'll realize actually, no, there were times things were quite gusty in the world. I mean, just think, nowadays most people will say they support the advancement of women, woman has been equal, the fact that we're so aware of the gustiness, in a sense, also speaks about the heightening of our own sensitivity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.

  Desmond Tutu

  Humility, Wells, Mines

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.

  Desmond Tutu

  Giving, People, Careful

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fire, Race, Way

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Patient, Rich, Poor

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Trying, Want

  Source: sojo.net

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• Being formed into a nation takes some doing.

  Desmond Tutu

  Nations

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'" Almost all of the passion that we have has come from the inspiration that we have got from the Jewish Scriptures.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspiration, Passion, Justice

  Source: sojo.net

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• People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Gold, Towns

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Thinking, Ubuntu

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

  Desmond Tutu

  Rights, Race, Groups

  Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

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• Forgiving is not easy. It is not cheap.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiving, Easy

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

  Desmond Tutu

  Evil, Aberration, Good And Evil

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.

  Desmond Tutu

  Accidents, Afterthought

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.

  Desmond Tutu

  Men, Light, Leader

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

  Desmond Tutu

  Want, Might, Failing

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Each one of us is not a divine afterthought.

  Desmond Tutu

  Divine, Afterthought

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings.

  Desmond Tutu

  Sex, Psych, Thinking

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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