"To be impartial... is indeed to have taken……" — Desmond Tutu
"To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo."
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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 Impartial Quotes
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for…
— Winston Churchill
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It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.
— Sun Tzu
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . .…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know…
— August Krogh
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You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
— Guy de Maupassant
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets…
— Lucian
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The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not…
— Fiorello H. La Guardia
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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I don't want to be either partial or impartial.
— Unknown Author
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To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would…
— Byron White
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