Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 16

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• If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

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  Speaks Out, Suffering, Want

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• We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.

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  Justice, Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice

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• Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

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  Nursing, Grudge

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• We are made for loving.

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  Made

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• Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

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  Children, Real, Educational

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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• When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.

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  Mother, Children, Night

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• Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.

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  Atheist, Dust, Scary

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• The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, to travel to visit my children and grandchildren, rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses.

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  Children, Beloved Wife, Tea

  "South Africa's Tutu announces retirement". www.cnn.com. July 22, 2010.

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• The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And it just goes on and on.

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  Suicide, Doe, Bombers

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• I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey home and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us.

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  Country, Struggle, Home

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• I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

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  Share, Humans

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• What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.

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  Rights, Lost, Apartheid

  "Desmond Tutu Turns 75". www.news24.com. October 06, 2006.

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• To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

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  Revenge, Self, Forgiving

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• That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

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  Laughter, Justice, Texture

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• We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.

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  Gun, Winning, Government

  "Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu", BBC News, June 2, 2006.

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• Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

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  People, Liberty, Default

  Desmond Tutu, Mothobi Mutloatse, John Webster (1984). “Hope and suffering: sermons and speeches”, W.B. Eerdmans, 1984

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• We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.

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  People, Environmental, Friendly

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• The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death... Choose life."

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  Beautiful, Home, Caring

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• Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.

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  Xenophobia, Race, Years

  Interview with Sonja Steptoe, content.time.com. October 17, 2006.

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• It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

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  Godly, Faithful, May

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• Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

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  Life, People, Wonderful

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.97, Random House

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• God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.

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  Heaven, Hell, Reverence

  Beyers Naudé memorial lecture, August 15, 2003.

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• Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

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  Law, People, Able

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• There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

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  Race, Views, Rooms

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• There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

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  Fall, Justice, Accountability

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