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Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
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Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.
Desmond Tutu
You are not an afterthought, you are not an accident.
Desmond Tutu
Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
Desmond Tutu
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
Desmond Tutu
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
Desmond Tutu
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, Now is that political or social? He said, I feed you. Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
Desmond Tutu
Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard are not militarily powerful, nor even economically prosperous. They have a commitment to try and make the world a better place.
Desmond Tutu
You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.
Desmond Tutu
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.
Desmond Tutu
I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, How would I have wanted to be treated?
Desmond Tutu
There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.
Desmond Tutu
Do your little bit of good where you are.
Desmond Tutu
Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
Desmond Tutu
We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
Desmond Tutu
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond Tutu
Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.
Desmond Tutu
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu
True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.
Desmond Tutu
I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.
Desmond Tutu
I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong
Desmond Tutu