Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 17

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• We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.

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  Dog, Irrelevance, Government

  Sunday Times Magazine, June 08, 1986.

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• Hate has no place in the house of God.

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  Hate, House, House Of God

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• The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral

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  Devastation, Landmines, Immoral

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• I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

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  Dust, Evil, Apartheid

  Interview with Nick Stadlen, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

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• Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

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  Country, Lying, Islands

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• You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

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  Smart, Fire, Being Smart

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• All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

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  Country, People, United States

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

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  Yesterday, People, Looks

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• No one is self-sufficient.
  And it's not a one-way thing-
  -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.

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  Self, Generosity, Way

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• And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

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  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Desmond Tutu, Insisting We Are 'Made For Goodness'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 11, 2010.

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• I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

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  Mean, Sunday, Squad

  Interview with Nick Stadlen, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2007.

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• And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.

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  People, Justice, Rainbow

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• Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

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  Gratitude, Humility, Generosity

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• Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

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  Hate, Compassion, Deeds

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• Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration.

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  Religious, People, Goal

  "It's time to rid the world of nuclear weapons" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.

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  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

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  Lying, Evil, Justice

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• Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

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  Play, Symphony, Community

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• Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

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  Memories, Mean, Drawing

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• Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

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  Easter, Hate, Justice

  Desmond Tutu (1982). “Crying in the wilderness: the struggle for justice in South Africa”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• I am because other people are.

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  People

  "God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times". Book by Desmond Tutu, 2003.

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• The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

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  Universe

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• It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

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  Difficult, Apartheid, South

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• Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

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  Rights, Fundamentals, Humans

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• I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

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  Mother, Religious, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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