Perpetrators Quotes by Desmond Tutu

9 Perpetrators quotes by Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu’s compassionate voice confronts the reality of wrongdoers in these nine succinct statements. The reflections blend moral clarity with hope, offering a quick, humane look at how he frames accountability.

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Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

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Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

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Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own…

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As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but…

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If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life…

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If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim…

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When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you…

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Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between…

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When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than…

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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…

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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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Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

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Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is…

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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

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

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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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