Tag: Desmond Tutu
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
Desmond Tutu
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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.
Desmond Tutu
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In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
Desmond Tutu
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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.
Desmond Tutu
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.
Desmond Tutu
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu
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For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
Desmond Tutu
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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.
Desmond Tutu
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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.
Desmond Tutu
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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.
Desmond Tutu