Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu, CHis a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth7 October 1931
CityKlerksdorp, South Africa
justice rainbow people
And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.
justice balance different
There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
white justice black
When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
justice too-much resources
Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
justice evil want
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
easter hate justice
Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.
laughter justice lessons
That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.
lying justice evil
Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.
fall justice accountability
There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.
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No future without forgiveness.
revenge punishment justice
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
peace justice impossibility
Peace without justice is an impossibility.
way-forward justice path
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
names justice killing
There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.