Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 18

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• You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of history, you'll realize actually, no, there were times things were quite gusty in the world. I mean, just think, nowadays most people will say they support the advancement of women, woman has been equal, the fact that we're so aware of the gustiness, in a sense, also speaks about the heightening of our own sensitivity.

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  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2007.

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• We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

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  Long, People, Giving

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.

  Desmond Tutu

  Christian, Notion, Persons

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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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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• Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

  Desmond Tutu

  Rights, Race, Groups

  Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

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• People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings.

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  Sex, Psych, Thinking

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

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  Want, Might, Failing

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.

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  Men, Light, Leader

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

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  People, Leader, World

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

  Desmond Tutu

  Memories, Attitude, Healing

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

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  Trustworthy, Interest, Humans

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

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  Forgiving, Would Be, Mercy

  Source: jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com

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• Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the world, then they must participate in political affairs because they are alive. And if they don't act neither as the leaven or the salt or the light, then things can go horribly badly wrong.

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  Religious, Believe, Light

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• People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Use, Justify

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

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• You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

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  Slavery, Argument, Justification

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

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• You will find that the Bible, if you want it to, will justify many things. St. Paul had a very male chauvinistic view of women. He would say things like women must not talk in church, must cover their heads, they mustn't talk and must remember that it was a woman who first tempted and this whole mess started because women messed us up. So you can read it in such a way that it justifies polygamy.

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  Views, Church, Way

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

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• When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between the cross, an instrument of suffering that procured our reconciliation with God, and its use as a symbol for nefarious attacks on black people. But they believe that they are being obedient to God because they can read things that they see.

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  Believe, Thinking, Kkk

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

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• People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

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  People, Water, Black

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

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• Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

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  Israel, Land, Political

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

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• There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing to themselves. Yes, they may at the moment have incredible power and are supported almost unconditionally by especially America, but most of the West as well. Yet what they are doing is contrary to the best teaching and highest teachings of their faith.

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  Teaching, Israel, America

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

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• The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

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  Want, Arms, Dignity

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

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• Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

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  Justice, Want, Dignity

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

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• As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life.

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  Christian, Believe, Sanctity

  "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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• 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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• That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

  Desmond Tutu

  Doe, Discrimination, Sin

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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