"I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world."
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Desmond Tutu quotes (page 24 of 27)
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"We are interconnected."
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"I have a lot of time for young people."
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"Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting amongst each other."
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"You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society."
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"People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on gay rights." No. It's God catching me by my neck. I wish I could keep quiet about the plight of the Palestinians. I can't!"
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"Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause."
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"I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians."
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"I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'" Almost all of the passion that we have has come from the inspiration that we have got from the Jewish Scriptures."
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"We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family."
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"One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the sake of others. The Dalai Lama has been in exile for so many years, yet the Chinese are running scared of him."
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"Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished."
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"God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people."
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"People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold."
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"You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of history, you'll realize actually, no, there were times things were quite gusty in the world. I mean, just think, nowadays most people will say they support the advancement of women, woman has been equal, the fact that we're so aware of the gustiness, in a sense, also speaks about the heightening of our own sensitivity."
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"I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers."
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"I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human."
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"Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the world, then they must participate in political affairs because they are alive. And if they don't act neither as the leaven or the salt or the light, then things can go horribly badly wrong."
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"As a Christian, I believe in the sanctity of life and that death is a part of life."
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"You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument."
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