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Sides Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
- The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the One full of…
- 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…
- God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
- In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
- If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
- To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
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- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon