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Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 5

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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.

Sorry, Mean, Heaven

"Desmond Tutu Would Prefer Hell Over A Homophobic Heaven". Desmond Tutu's statements during the United Nations’ launch of its gay-rights program in Cape Town, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2013.

Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.

Dream, Children, School

Source: stuart-coleman.com

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Mean, Reverence For Life, Death Penalty

We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)

Moving, Future, Vision

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

There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth thistles as soil erosion devastates formerly arable land and deserts overtake fertile farms. Rivers and the atmosphere are polluted thoughtlessly and we are fearful of the consequences of a depleted ozone layer and the devastation of the greenhouse effect. We are not quite at home in our world, and somewhere in each of us there is a nostalgia for a paradise that has been lost.

Home, Rivers, Ozone

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Children, Giving, Moral

"Facing the Future: Global Education at the Crossroads" by Desmond Tutu, Dennis Van Roekel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"

Land, Justice, Trying

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu Loves Pope Francis, Speaks On Gay Rights, War in Syria, Accusations Of Anti-Semitism". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that cannot be turned about by ordinary human beings and their natural capacity for love of the deepest sort.

Spiritual, Ordinary, Hopeless

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Mean, Government, Long

We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition.

Religious, Unique, Differences

In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.

Believe, What Matters, Done

True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

Forgiving, Done, Repentance

Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence.

Spiritual, Brother, Children

For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When I ignore a physical wound, it does not go away. No, it festers and goes bad.

Pain, Going Away, Causes

Source: jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

Future, Vision, Fossils

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Family, Oneness, Humans

"Made for Goodness" by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

Europe, Bows, Horror

One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.

One Day, Wake Up

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Powerful, Grace, Encounters

If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.

Men, Sake, Goodness

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

Jesus, People, Political

"God's Mission in the World: An Ecumenical Christian Study Guide on Global Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals". The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2006.

I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.

Mean, Animal, Speaks Out

"Desmond Tutu On Animal Welfare: We Must Fight Injustice To Animals", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2013.

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

Addiction, Fuel, Fossils

"Heirs to Rockefeller oil fortune divest from fossil fuels over climate change" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

It may seem daunting, but I am a prisoner of hope. We are more connected than ever before, we have more knowledge, and there are solutions if we work together. Today's technology is a great asset in encouraging global cooperation and understanding.

Technology, Understanding, Together

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people. We can be human only together.

Country, Military, People

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

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