Quote #35

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

More from Desmond Tutu

  1. Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
  2. I long and work for a South Africa that is more open and more just; Where people count and where they have equal access to the good things …
  3. Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
  4. What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did no…
  5. There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so mu…
  6. We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
  7. It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as …
  8. Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.

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