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„Wir lernen aus der Geschichte, dass wir nicht aus der Geschichte lernen!“

„Ich hätte nicht den Friedensnobelpreis bekommen, wenn ich nicht gegen jede Form der Gewalt wäre - gegen die Gewalt eines Unterdrückerregimes wie auch gegen die Gewalt der Leute, die ein solches System bekämpfen.“

Desmond Tutu

Quelle: Interview in "DER SPIEGEL", Ausgabe 49/1985 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/unser-land-brennt-es-blutet-zu-tode-a-e35dd0b3-0002-0001-0000-000013514887 spiegel.de]

„[…] Obama kann wie kaum ein anderer sehr verschiedene Menschen hinter sich versammeln. Er bringt frischen Wind in die Politik. Dass er zusätzlich noch schwarz ist - das ist natürlich wunderbar!“

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über Barack Obama, Stern Nr. 28/2008 vom 3. Juli 2008, S. 52

„Ich bin kein Staatsmann. Ich kann nur sagen, was ich glaube, was Politiker machen sollen. Politik ist, wie man gerne sagt, die Kunst des Möglichen.“

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Stern Nr. 28/2008 vom 3. Juli 2008, S. 52

„Wir kämpfen für die Menschenrechte, für ein politisches System, in dem die Menschen die Freiheit haben, sich für eine Ideologie ihrer Wahl zu entscheiden.“

Desmond Tutu

Quelle: Interview in "DER SPIEGEL", Ausgabe 49/1985 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/unser-land-brennt-es-blutet-zu-tode-a-e35dd0b3-0002-0001-0000-000013514887 spiegel.de

„Natürlich wollen wir grundlegende Veränderungen. Wenn das Revolution ist, dann bin ich ein Revolutionär. Selbst Jesus war das, er wollte Güte, Gerechtigkeit und Vergebung.“

Desmond Tutu

Quelle: Interview in "DER SPIEGEL", Ausgabe 43/1984 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/nur-rundhuetten-a-f5cbd62e-0002-0001-0000-000013512711 spiegel.de]

Desmond Tutu Zitate und Sprüche

„Mein Vater pflegte zu sagen: Sprich nicht lauter, argumentiere weiser.“

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„Die Länder Europas haben Jahrhunderte gebraucht, um ihre Demokratie zu entwickeln. Wir hatten gerade einmal 14 Jahre seit dem Ende der Apartheid! Und wir hatten davor 300 Jahre eine Gesellschaft, die auf Rassentrennung beruhte.“

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über Südafrika, Stern Nr. 28/2008 vom 3. Juli 2008, S. 52

„Ich glaube, dass ein Christ auch politisch sein muss, wenngleich nicht parteipolitisch.“

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Quelle: Interview in "DER SPIEGEL", Ausgabe 43/1984 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/nur-rundhuetten-a-f5cbd62e-0002-0001-0000-000013512711 spiegel.de

„Die Hauptursache jeder Unruhe in Südafrika ist die Apartheid, da genügt ein Funken.“

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Quelle: Interview in "DER SPIEGEL", Ausgabe 43/1984 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/nur-rundhuetten-a-f5cbd62e-0002-0001-0000-000013512711 spiegel.de

„Jeder, der gegen die Apartheid ist, wird in Südafrika als Kommunist abgestempelt.“

Desmond Tutu

Quelle: Interview in "DER SPIEGEL", Ausgabe 49/1985 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/unser-land-brennt-es-blutet-zu-tode-a-e35dd0b3-0002-0001-0000-000013514887 spiegel.de

Desmond Tutu: Zitate auf Englisch

“Injustice and oppression will never prevail.”

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Speech in Boston (2002)
Kontext: Injustice and oppression will never prevail. Those who are powerful have to remember the litmus test that God gives to the powerful: what is your treatment of the poor, the hungry, the voiceless? And on the basis of that, God passes judgment.
We should put out a clarion call to the government of the people of Israel, to the Palestinian people and say: peace is possible, peace based on justice is possible. We will do all we can to assist you to achieve this peace, because it is God's dream, and you will be able to live amicably together as sisters and brothers.

“Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[, 23 November 2004]”

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“My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.”

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“We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.”

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As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 255

“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”

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“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
:This quote, often attributed to Jomo Kenyatta, was first written in a fiction play published by holocaust doubter Rolf Hochhuth, in his controversial The Deputy, a Christian tragedy (1964), Grove Press, p. 144. No reference to any historical or original source was given. Other citations are found in books written by critics of religion, such as Christos Tzanetakos's "The Life and Work of an Atheist Pioneer", iUniverse; and Jack Huberman's "Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound" (2008), 175. No references are given.
: In Desmond Tutu: A Biography (2004) by Steven Gish, p. 101; is clarified Tutu used it as a joke which was not of him.”

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“When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.”

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“In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.”

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“Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.”

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“Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.”

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“Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.”

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“Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.”

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“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

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Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)

“It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.”

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Quelle: God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time

“We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.”

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“A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.”

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“Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.”

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“If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.”

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“Do a little bit of good wherever you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world”

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Variante: Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

“For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.”

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As quoted in The New York Times (3 January 1985)

“We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.”

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As quoted in Sunday Times Magazine (8 June 1986).

“He has a childlike, boyish, impish, mischievousness. And I have to try and make him behave properly, like a holy man!”

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As quoted in "Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu" at BBC News (2 June 2006)

“Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.”

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Hope and Suffering: Sermons and Speeches (1984)

“We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.”

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Speech (1985) as quoted in Equality, Volume 1, Issue 1 (1989)

“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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Today, NBC TV (9 January 1985)

“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.”

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Hope and Suffering: Sermons and Speeches (1984)

“Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.”

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As quoted in Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Healing the Shattered Soul (2002) by Dalene Fuller Rogers and Harold G. Koenig, p. 31

“When people say that the Bible and politics don't mix, I ask them which Bible they are reading.”

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‎Attributed but unsourced
Quelle: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/ActNow/blog/january-2015/Faith-and-politics-a-match-made-in-heaven.aspx
Quelle: https://www.durhamcathedral.co.uk/worshipandmusic/sermon-archive/anticipating-the-general-election

“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.”

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As quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (20 December 1984)

“When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.”

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As quoted in The New York Times (3 January 1985)