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Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 4

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Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

Hate, Compassion, Race

Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.

Israel, Racism, Looks

To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

Loss, Forgiving, Coins

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.

Hands, People, Injustice And Oppression

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

Humanity, Recognizing, Dependent

FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Dec 18, 2014

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Children, Heart, Wonderful

Desmond Tutu, John Webster (1982). “Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa”

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?"

Ears, Want, Sometimes

Desmond Tutu's Wallenberg Lecture at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, wallenberg.umich.edu. October 29, 2008.

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

Brother, Law, Humanity

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rev Mpho Tutu (2014). “The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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.

Compassion, Rights, Tables

1985 NBC News, 9 Jan.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

Pain, Forgiving, Able

Peace without justice is an impossibility.

Peace, Justice, Impossibility

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

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.

Hate, Humanity, Risk

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

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

Love You, Enemy, Ruins

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.

Thinking, Our World, Air

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

People, Favors, Speak

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

Mother, Boys, Men

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

Business, Ties, People

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

A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.

Jealousy, Blessing, Knowing

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Crowds, Standing Out, Shoulders

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

Children, World, Fractions

We need other human beings in order to be human.

Order, Needs, Humans

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

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

Mean, Ubuntu, Empathy

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Persons

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

You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are certain parts which you have to say no to. The Bible accepted slavery. St Paul said women should not speak in church at all and there are people who have used that to say women should not be ordained. There are many things that you shouldn't accept.

Book, People, Church

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

Country, Usa, Rights

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