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Say Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."
- 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…
- 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…
- The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence…
- If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
- I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.
- Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what…
- If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to…
- Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is…
- 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.…
- Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is…
- Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable,…
- My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And…
- We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come:…
- If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail…
- The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after…
- For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is…
- Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
- My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can…
- It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am…
- 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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