Desmond Tutu Quotes

Desmond Tutu (76)

Birth:	7th October, 1971
Nationality:	South African
Profession:	Activist, Bishop

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Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He was the first black South African Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa.

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• We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in God

• We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

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

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  Topics in Truth, Wisdom

  Tags in Oppressor, Situations

• Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Majority

• When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Blamed

• You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

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  Topics in Family, God

  Tags in Gifts

• Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

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  Topics in Future

• If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

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  Topics in Opportunity, Truth

  Tags in Injustice
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  Hate has no place in the house of God.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Hate, Place

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mandela, Africa

• Oh, 1994, April 27. There won’t be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sky, Mean

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Despised, Weak

• The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Deliver, Universe

• Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imperative, Universal

• We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Goodness, Compassion

• We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diversity, Characterized

• When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

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  Topics in Future

  Tags in Accomplish, Face

• When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Genocide, Intrinsically

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shoulders, Crowd