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Desmond Tutu Quotes - Page 8

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A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

Isolation, Persons, Humans

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

Hurt, Thinking, Littles

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Europe, Rich, Knows

People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

Country, Powerful, People

"Apartheid in the Holy Land" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

Together, Humans, Persons

Source: sojo.net

I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.

Christian, Thinking, Giving

"Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu". news.bbc.co.uk. June 2, 2006.

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

Order, Substitutes, Tyranny

1998 In The Irish Times,'This Week They Said', 31 Oct.

Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim "oh no, we respect human rights" even when they are doing the most egregious things.

Rights, Dictator, Claims

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

Grace, Dignity, Get Up

Desmond Tutu, John Allen (1997). “The essential Desmond Tutu”, David Philip Publishers

I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.

Caring, People, World

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

I am not an afterthought I am not an accident.

Accidents, Afterthought

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present.

Crazy, Gay, Choices

We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity for good. And that is why we are all of us appalled when something bad happens. Because if the bad was the norm, we would just shrug our shoulders and say "well tough luck, this is how the cookie crumbles" kind of thing but none of us does that.

Evil, Luck, Doe

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

War, Can Do

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

Live Life, Dignity, Feels

Do your little bit of good where you are.

Kindness, Good People, Littles

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

Elephants, Politics, Way

In terms of the New Testament the Jews must suffer, therefore we will put it into practice if we will in charge and there will be no sympathy for the Jews when the blacks take over.

Practice, Suffering, New Testament

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

Competition, Prejudice, Looks

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

Fashion, Past, Return

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.

Long, Together, Humans

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

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

Xenophobia, Racism, Slavery

Desmond Tutu, John Allen (2011). “God Is Not A Christian”, p.51, Random House

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.

Heaven, Homophobic, Refuse

Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams (2016). “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World”, p.18, Penguin

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

Forgiveness, Spiritual, Real

"The Truth About Forgiveness" by Wendy Strgar, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2010.

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