Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
Quote by Desmond Tutu
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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
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Desmond Tutu Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
- But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I can't go to war with paparazzi.
- My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
- When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
- Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
- And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
- The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.