Desmond Tutu Quotes

• 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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• We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

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

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• I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

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• I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

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• I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

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• I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

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• In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

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

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• 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.

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• Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

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• The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

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• All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

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• Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

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

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

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• God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

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• God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

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Desmond Tutu (80)

Birth:	7th October, 1931
Nationality:	South African
Profession:	Activist, Bishop

About

Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal, South Africa. He is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop. He has campaigned to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, the imprisonment of Chelsea Manning, homophobia and transphobia. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986; the Pacem in Terris Award in 1987; the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999; the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Tutu travelled to King's College London, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in theology.

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