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Desmond Tutu Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.”
— Desmond Tutu, Hope and suffering: Sermons and speeches
Tagged: Freedom, Liberty, Loss, lost, Vigilant, vigilance, People, Wisdom
“God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.”
— Desmond Tutu, Wikiquote.org: Desmond Tutu
Tagged: God, Freedom, Free Will, Free, Hell, Heaven, reverence
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
— Desmond Tutu, 'As You Are': What the World Can Learn From Desmond Tutu
Tagged: kindness, Good, Compassion
“Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.”
— Desmond Tutu, Exploring Forgiveness
Tagged: forgiveness, absolute, Necessity, human, Human Being, Existence, Life, Living
“Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.”
— Desmond Tutu, Wikiquote.org: Desmond Tutu
Tagged: resentment, Anger, Blood Pressure, Health, Digestion
“Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.”
— Desmond Tutu, Believe: The Words and Inspiration of Desmond Tutu
Tagged: Children, wonderful, Gift, Capacity, ability, able, heart, Love, see, Truth, Humble, Humility
“A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.”
— Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
Tagged: Person, human, Human Being, acknowledge, Recognize
“Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.”
— Desmond Tutu, Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief about Racism
Tagged: Attitude, Personality, Race, Nice, humanity, Acceptance of Others, Tolerance
“History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.”
— Desmond Tutu, Hope and suffering: Sermons and speeches
Tagged: History, beauty, Discover, Example, forgiven, forgiveness
“There could not be a future without forgiveness.”
— Desmond Tutu, Without Forgiveness, There Is No Future
Tagged: forgiveness, Future
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