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Desmond Tutu Quotes about Justice

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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Bullying, Justice, Sides

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

Peace without justice is an impossibility.

Peace, Justice, Impossibility

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

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.

Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.

Justice, Heal, Offense

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Way Forward, Justice, Path

"In Africa, a step backward on human rights" by Desmond Tutu, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2010.

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

Black And White, Justice, Diversity

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

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

Evil, Justice, Diversity

1985 Speech, Mar.

There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.

Names, Justice, Killing

To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.

Revenge, Punishment, Justice

No future without forgiveness.

Justice, Racial Justice

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

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

Punishment, Justice, Retributive Justice

Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

White, Diversity, Justice

Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

Lying, Evil, Justice

There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.

Justice, Balance, Different

"Recovering From Apartheid" by Tina Rosenberg, www.newyorker.com. November 18, 1996.

Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

Justice, Diversity, Too Much

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

And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.

People, Justice, Rainbow

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

Easter, Hate, Justice

Desmond Tutu (1982). “Crying in the wilderness: the struggle for justice in South Africa”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.

Justice, Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice

There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

Fall, Justice, Accountability

That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

Laughter, Justice, Texture

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

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.'" Almost all of the passion that we have has come from the inspiration that we have got from the Jewish Scriptures.

Inspiration, Passion, Justice

Source: sojo.net

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

Justice, Want, Dignity

Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."

Thinking, Justice, People

"Desmond Tutu On The Role Of Religion In The Peace Process". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.aminachaudary.com. 2010.

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