Desmond Tutu

Leader

78 Quotes

Kebaikan lebih kuat dari kejahatan; cinta lebih kuat dari kebencian; cahaya lebih kuat dari kegelapan; hidup lebih kuat dari kematian; Kemenangan adalah milik kita melalui Dia yang mengasihi kita.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Kami menghuni alam semesta yang ditandai dengan keragaman.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

Kita diciptakan untuk mencintai. Tanpa cinta, kita seperti tanaman tanpa air.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Kemanusiaan saya terikat di hatimu, karena kita hanya bisa menjadi manusia bersama-sama.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

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