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Been Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
- Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth
- The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching…
- There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as…
- I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he…
- Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.
- I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white.…
- Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we…
- I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the…
- Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never…
- I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community,…
- We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when…
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- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
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