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Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 17

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Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

Rights, Fundamentals, Humans

Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

Law, People, Able

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

Godly, Faithful, May

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Blessing, Men, South

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

Memories, Mean, Drawing

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.

Atheist, Dust, Scary

God is not a diversion.

Diversion

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.

Forgiveness, Way, Pretending

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Way, Nobel, Obligation

"The secrets of a peacemaker" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Forgiving

Desmond Tutu (2012). “No Future Without Forgiveness”, p.35, Random House

My vote is my secret.

Voting, Secret, Vote

When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.

Mother, Children, Night

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

Thinking, Death Penalty, Obscenity

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.

Others Happiness, Recipes, Want

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

Recipes, Want, Happiness And Success

It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.

Simple, Race, Ideas

We are made for loving.

Made

Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.

Nursing, Grudge

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.

Fall, Thinking, Example

Desmond Tutu (1985). “Hope and Suffering”, Eerdmans Publishing Company

Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

Hate, Compassion, Deeds

People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable

People, Causes, Unstoppable

I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.

Laughter, Caring, Thinking

Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.

Taken, Sides, Status Quo

There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.

Care, Energy, Use

The Daily Express, October 29, 2008.

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

Two, Justice, Form

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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