Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 19

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• There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

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  Levels, Poverty, South

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

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  Teacher, Order, Answers

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• When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.

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  Love You, Lovers, Strive

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• God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.

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  Trying, Affair, Love Affair

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• We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

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  Real, Heaven, Hell

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• Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

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  Mom, Doe, Return

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• I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

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  Mean, Thinking, Ubuntu

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• I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers.

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  Thinking, Organization, Oracles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

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  Mean, Thinking, Differences

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• A leader is someone you are not disappointed in placing trust in. When that person makes suggestions, you are inclined to trust [them]. Often it is people who have been there [in a similar situation to the people he or she is leading]. They would generally be people who are ready to take the risks themselves. Most leaders would be people who don't ever give commands and remain at home and let the foot soldiers be the ones who bear the brunt.

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  Home, Feet, People

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• One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him.

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  Running, Self, Years

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• Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

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  Mean, People, Able

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."

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  Thinking, Justice, People

  "Desmond Tutu On The Role Of Religion In The Peace Process". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.aminachaudary.com. 2010.

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• Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

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  Running, Real, Long

  Source: www.drfranklipman.com

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• I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

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  Trying, Red, Rags

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.

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  Mean, Faults, Christ

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

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  Taken, People, Want

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• People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

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  People, Perception, Want

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• We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

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  People, Temptation, Sin

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• God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.

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  Creating, Incredibles, Persons

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• God hopes that we are going to love God back.

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  God Love

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• Our parents will maybe sometimes when they are upset with us and we have been troublesome say something like "Mommy really doesn't like a naughty child." And we think that we have to earn the approval, earn the love of our parents. And then we transfer it to God and think we have to earn... We don't have to earn it! God loves us.

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  Children, Thinking, Naughty

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• Each one of us is not a divine afterthought.

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  Divine, Afterthought

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• God loved me before I actually was.

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  God Love

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• You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.

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  Accidents, Afterthought

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