Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 20

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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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• 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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• 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

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians.

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  Land, Trying, Want

  Source: sojo.net

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• We are interconnected.

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  Interconnected

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'" Almost all of the passion that we have has come from the inspiration that we have got from the Jewish Scriptures.

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  Inspiration, Passion, Justice

  Source: sojo.net

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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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• 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

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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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

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

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  Deep Love, Fire, People

  Source: sojo.net

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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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• The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.

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  Thinking, America, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights." No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!

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  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  Source: sojo.net

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• Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

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  Dust, People, Humanity

  Source: sojo.net

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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

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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

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  Katrina, American Society

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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

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  Mom, Doe, Return

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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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

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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

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  God Love

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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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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• 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

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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

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  Infinite, Paradox, Made

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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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

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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