Latest Desmond Tutu Quotes from Interviews

• We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

  Desmond Tutu

  Together, Humans, Persons

  Fuente: sojo.net

• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Long, Members, Our Family

  Fuente: sojo.net

• I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.

  Desmond Tutu

  País, Militar, Personas

  Fuente: sojo.net

• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspiration, Passion, Justice

  Fuente: sojo.net

• Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Practice, Israel

  Fuente: sojo.net

• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Trying, Want

  Fuente: sojo.net

• God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Done, Middle East

  Fuente: sojo.net

• I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Our World, Moments, Pope

  Fuente: sojo.net

• I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Looks, Imagine

  Fuente: sojo.net

• [Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.

  Desmond Tutu

  Taken, Air, Pope

• The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.

  Desmond Tutu

  Pensamiento, América, Gente

  Fuente: sojo.net

• 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!

  Desmond Tutu

  Gay, Pensamiento, Derechos

  Fuente: sojo.net

• People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Ethnicity, People, Used

  Fuente: sojo.net

• A veces uno desearía poder callarse. Es el tipo de cosas de las que oíste quejarse al profeta Jeremías cuando dice: "Sabes Dios, yo no quería ser profeta y tú me hiciste pronunciar palabras de condena contra un pueblo al que amo profundamente. Tu palabra es como un fuego que arde en mi pecho".

  Desmond Tutu

  Deep Love, Fire, People

  Fuente: sojo.net

• Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dust, People, Humanity

  Fuente: sojo.net

• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Alive, Able, Individual

  Fuente: sojo.net

• I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make the world a more gentle, a more compassionate, a more caring world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Caring, People, World

  Fuente: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Forever, Likes

  Fuente: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• I have a lot of time for young people.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Young

  Fuente: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.

  Desmond Tutu

  Nice, Ubuntu, Want

  Fuente: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• Forgiving is good for your health.

  Desmond Tutu

  Perdonar

  Fuente: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health.

  Desmond Tutu

  Nurse, Grudge

  Fuente: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.

  Desmond Tutu

  Humility, Wells, Mines

  Fuente: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• We are interconnected.

  Desmond Tutu

  Interconectado

  Fuente: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

• I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

  Desmond Tutu

  Media, Pensamiento, Ubuntu

  Fuente: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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