Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“...the cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no peace in South Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.” — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
