Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 20

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• Forgiving is not easy. It is not cheap.

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  Forgiving, Easy

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• Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.

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  Christian, Son, Cost

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• There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

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  Two, Justice, Form

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• You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now we have restored the equilibrium. It never happens!

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  Revenge, Thinking, Had Enough

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• You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

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  Thinking, People, Done

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• If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.

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  Giving, Live Your Life, Victim

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• Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

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  Coins, Politician, Used

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• Human beings are fundamentally good.

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  Humans, Human Beings

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• When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.

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  Children, People, Abuse

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• We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

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  Evil, Aberration, Good And Evil

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• Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.

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  Mother, Macho, Teresa

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• We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.

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  Infinite, Paradox, Made

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• The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

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  Environment, Failing, Worst

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• There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

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  Numbers, People, Giving

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• God would come down and lead us out of bondage. And God led us out of bondage.

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  Down And, Bondage

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• Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting amongst each other.

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  Mistake, Fighting, Years

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• Being formed into a nation takes some doing.

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  Nations

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• You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

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  Katrina, American Society

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• One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them.

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  Patient, Rich, Poor

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• When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.

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  Fire, Race, Way

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• We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.

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  Giving, People, Careful

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• People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

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  People, Gold, Towns

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• We are interconnected.

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  Interconnected

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• When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.

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  Humility, Wells, Mines

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• When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health.

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  Nurse, Grudge

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