Desmond Tutu Quotes

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

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

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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 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 certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

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• How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

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• Hate has no place in the house of God.

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

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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• Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

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• 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.

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• In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

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• Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

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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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