9 Quotes by Desmond Tutu about justice
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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
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If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
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And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.
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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African underTutustanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
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When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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No future without forgiveness.
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