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Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 13

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Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Thinking, Favors, Should

Los Angeles Times, letter to the editor by L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley, May 13, 1985.

If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!

Children, Giving, Priorities

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

Gun, Men, Might

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

The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions

Future, Years, Vision

"Desmond Tutu: We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2014.

I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.

Believe, Leader, Needs

We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom

Country, Path, Praying

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."

Thinking, Practice, Israel

Source: sojo.net

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

Want, Oppressed, Oppressors

Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

Revenge, Way, Heal

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at all. I mean, it is extraordinary because it almost is as if God in fact wills us also to sin, but that is not true.

Mean, Waiting, Way

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom.

Decision, Want, Sides

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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.

Ethnicity, People, Used

Source: sojo.net

We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

People, Leader, Suffering

Source: www.egonzehnder.com

The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.

White, Black, Speak

Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

Rights, Challenges, Earth

"Facing One of the Greatest Human Rights Challenges of Our Time" by Jackie Jenkins-Scott, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2014.

God is on the side of the oppressed.

Sides, Oppressed

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.

Spiritual, Caring, Compassion

Source: www.egonzehnder.com

God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it to be your choice." And it is a fantastic thing because even at the moment when I am making the choice to reject God, I would depend from moment to moment, you know that beautiful image of God creating by breathing God's breath into this lump of clay, making it a human being.

Beautiful, Love You, Creating

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say "our prophets."

Inspiration, Old Testament, Prophet

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

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

Magic, Wish, Hey

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

Violence, Facts, Should

Source: theislamicmonthly.com

Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.

Why Not, Longing, Infinite

Source: www.egonzehnder.com

You have to say, whatever it is that I say or do or think or teach must be something that will be consistent with who Jesus Christ was. So that is your ultimate litmus test, not that you've got specific words to say, whatever they may be saying. It is what is being said. They're consistent with the revelation of God that we encounter in Jesus.

Jesus, Thinking, Tests

Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can stop it, we have a responsibility to do so that began in the genesis of humanity, when God commanded the earliest human inhabitants of the Garden of Eden, "to till it and keep it". To "keep" it; not to abuse it, not to make as much money as possible from it, not to destroy it.

Responsibility, Garden, Eden

"We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2014.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

Climate, Use, Tactics

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

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