Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 20

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• We are interconnected.

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  Interconnected

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

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  Katrina, American Society

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.

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  Mother, Macho, Teresa

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Human beings are fundamentally good.

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  Humans, Human Beings

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• Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

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  Coins, Politician, Used

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

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  Long, Members, Our Family

  Source: sojo.net

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• God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

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  People, Forever, Likes

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

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  Our World, Moments, Pope

  Source: sojo.net

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• I have a lot of time for young people.

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  People, Young

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Forgiving is good for your health.

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  Forgiving

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health.

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  Nurse, Grudge

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• As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

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  Teacher, Order, Answers

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers.

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  Thinking, Organization, Oracles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

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  People, Use, Justify

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

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• Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.

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  Alive, Able, Individual

  Source: sojo.net

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• Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

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  Dust, People, Humanity

  Source: sojo.net

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• Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

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  Deep Love, Fire, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

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  Mean, People, Able

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice.

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  Compassion, Journey, Choices

  "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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• The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.

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  Thinking, America, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."

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  Thinking, Justice, People

  "Desmond Tutu On The Role Of Religion In The Peace Process". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.aminachaudary.com. 2010.

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• People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights." No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!

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  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  Source: sojo.net

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• When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.

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  Love You, Lovers, Strive

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.

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  Christian, Son, Cost

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• We must return to the fundamentals; the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count; you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.

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  Fundamentals, Realization, Matter

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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