Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 15

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• God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.

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  Dream, Helping, Realizing

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• Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.

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  Others Happiness, Recipes, Want

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• God is not a diversion.

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  Diversion

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• It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

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  Religious, Godly, People

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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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• Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

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  Children, Sorry, Suffering

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.71, Random House

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

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  Thinking

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

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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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• In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

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  Way, Nobel, Obligation

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

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

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  Book, Competition, Treasure

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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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• It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

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  Blessing, Men, South

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• Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

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  Smart, Winter, Fire

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• Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

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  Forgiveness, Way, Pretending

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• Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

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  Recipes, Want, Happiness And Success

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• I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.

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  Laughter, Caring, Thinking

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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• My vote is my secret.

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  Voting, Secret, Vote

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• I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.

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  Believe, People, Goal

  Desmond Tutu, John Webster (1982). “Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa”

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• There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.

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  Care, Energy, Use

  The Daily Express, October 29, 2008.

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• History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.

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  Fall, Thinking, Example

  Desmond Tutu (1985). “Hope and Suffering”, Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable

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  People, Causes, Unstoppable

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• There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

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  Justice, Balance, Different

  "Recovering From Apartheid" by Tina Rosenberg, www.newyorker.com. November 18, 1996.

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• I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

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  Thinking, Death Penalty, Obscenity

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• We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

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  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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

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