"Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been……" — Desmond Tutu
"Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin."
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267 Quotes by Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu has 267 quotes on this site.
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Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
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We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be…
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When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead…
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments…
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My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."
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Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be…
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When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the…
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If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be…
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Dream! Dream! And then go for it!
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We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about.…
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More Abandoning Quotes
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one of 102 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything.…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from…
— Julia Hill
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start…
— Katrina Kenison
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Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
— Epictetus
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If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have…
— Tom Regan
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Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for? Do you believe him enough to obey him and to…
— David Platt
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When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a…
— Gautama Buddha
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A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily,…
— Gautama Buddha
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