Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 3

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• The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of mercy and compassion. He is not a neutral God inhabiting some inaccessible Mount Olympus. He is a God who cares about His children and cares enormously for the weak, the poor, the naked, the downtrodden, the despised. He takes their side not because they are good, since many of them are demonstrably not so. He takes their side because He is that kind of God, and they have no one else to champion them.

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  Christian, Powerful, Children

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

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  Hate, Humanity, Risk

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.141, Random House

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• It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay.

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  Gay, Ethnicity, People

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [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. I'm so, so thrilled that he is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

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  Thinking, Our World, Air

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.

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  Leadership, Wisdom, Class

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• Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

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  Ubuntu, Oneness, Humanity

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• Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

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  Inspiring, Forgiveness, New Beginnings

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• When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."

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  Thinking, Land, Practice

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.

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  Hurt, Real, Healing

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• Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

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  Self, Way, Moral

  "Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads" by Desmond Tutu, Dennis Van Roekel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

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  People, Favors, Speak

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• I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.

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  Mean, Animal, Speaks Out

  "Desmond Tutu On Animal Welfare: We Must Fight Injustice To Animals", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

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  Diversity, Unity, Different

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• We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a species is threatened by global warming, economic meltdown, and an ever-increasing gap between rich and poor. Yet these threats offer an opportunity to awaken as an interconnected and beloved community.

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  Opportunity, Beloved Community, Survival

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

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  Powerful, Reality, Doe

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 1999.

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• Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

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  Love You, Enemy, Ruins

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• I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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  Compassion, Rights, Tables

  1985 NBC News, 9 Jan.

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• Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

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  Revenge, Politics

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• If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

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  Hands, People, Injustice And Oppression

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• We need other human beings in order to be human.

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  Order, Needs, Humans

  Michael Battle, Desmond Tutu (2009). “Ubuntu: I in You and You in Me”, p.54, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

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  Business, Ties, People

  "We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2014.

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• We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

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  Motivational, Success, Water

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• Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.

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  Children, Growing Up, Compassion

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.86, Random House

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• All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

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  Humanity, Recognizing, Dependent

  FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Dec 18, 2014

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