Desmond Tutu quotes - page 7

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid. (Desmond Tutu)
The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral.
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The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
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No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.
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It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ.
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You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
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Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration.
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The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
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To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
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God is not a diversion.
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries. (Desmond Tutu)
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
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Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
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I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.
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Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.
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There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.
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Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
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We are made for loving. (Desmond Tutu)
I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.
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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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Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.
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People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings.
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