Able Quotes by Desmond Tutu

18 Able quotes by Desmond Tutu

Tutu’s 18 quotes radiate hope, reminding us that ability isn’t just personal—it’s a communal blessing. His words celebrate the power of compassion and action working together.

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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…

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People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

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Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

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I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things…

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

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We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern…

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Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy…

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Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was…

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Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness…

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Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another,…

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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I…

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Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to…

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Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can…

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I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me…

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A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and…

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I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.…

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... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home…

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All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous…

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Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

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We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black…

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

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Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an…

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South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

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I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and…

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“child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.”

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To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

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It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate…

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Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

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