Desmond Tutu quotes - page 3

There can be no healing without truth. (Desmond Tutu)
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep. View quote
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin. View quote
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil. View quote
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History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene. View quote
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Hate has no place in the house of God. View quote
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Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. View quote
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We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side. View quote
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We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death. View quote
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What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong. View quote
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We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God. (Desmond Tutu)
People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable. View quote
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular. View quote
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In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. View quote
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It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong. View quote
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew. View quote
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Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy. View quote
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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. View quote
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At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God. View quote
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. View quote
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy. (Desmond Tutu)
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. View quote
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God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping. View quote
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. View quote
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We would like to see you departing peacefully. View quote
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