Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 3

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• The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of mercy and compassion. He is not a neutral God inhabiting some inaccessible Mount Olympus. He is a God who cares about His children and cares enormously for the weak, the poor, the naked, the downtrodden, the despised. He takes their side not because they are good, since many of them are demonstrably not so. He takes their side because He is that kind of God, and they have no one else to champion them.

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  Christian, Powerful, Children

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

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  Motivational, Success, Water

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• Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

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  Self, Way, Moral

  "Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads" by Desmond Tutu, Dennis Van Roekel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

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  Racist, Territory, Apartheid

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• Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

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  Mean, Forgiving, Doe

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• Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

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  Powerful, Reality, Doe

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 1999.

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• Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

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  Hate, Compassion, Race

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• Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

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  Quality, Foundation, Equitable

  "Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads" by Desmond Tutu, Dennis Van Roekel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.

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  Suicide, Military, Land

  "Apartheid in the Holy Land". www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

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• We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.

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  Home, Should Have, Cities

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• If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

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  Love, Generations, Goes On

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• We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.

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  Fighting, Oil, People

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• How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

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  Soccer, Teamwork, Orchestra

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.50, Random House

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• We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

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  Diversity, Celebrating Diversity, Universe

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.49, Random House

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• Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.

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  Children, Growing Up, Compassion

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.86, Random House

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• When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."

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  Thinking, Land, Practice

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay.

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  Gay, Ethnicity, People

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

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  People, Determined, Impossible

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• God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

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  Love Is, Sides, Conflict

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

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• I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

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  Leadership, Wisdom, Class

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• When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

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  Hate, Humanity, Risk

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.141, Random House

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• I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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  Compassion, Rights, Tables

  1985 NBC News, 9 Jan.

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• Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.

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  Israel, Racism, Looks

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• To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

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  Loss, Forgiving, Coins

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• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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  Bullying, Justice, Sides

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

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