Desmond Tutu Quotes About Past

• As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fashion, Past, Return

• Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

  Desmond Tutu

  Eye, Past, Doors

  Report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission foreword (1998)

• Por supuesto, hay que tener en cuenta el peso del pasado. No puedes descartarlo fácilmente. Es un legado y a menudo hay que cargar con un albatros. Y eso no ocurrirá hasta que la gente sea capaz de tener un cierto nivel de confianza e intente hablar con los demás, no como caricaturas, sino como personas.

  Desmond Tutu

  Past, People, Trying

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

• True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.

  Desmond Tutu

  Nursing, Past, People

• As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

  Desmond Tutu

  Past, Long, Faces

  Fuente: www.egonzehnder.com

• Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.

  Desmond Tutu

  Past, Trying, Faces

  Fuente: www.egonzehnder.com

• I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.

  Desmond Tutu

  Recuerdos, Pasado, Gente

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