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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.“

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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]

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.“

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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

“There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding 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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As quoted in " Recovering from Apartheid http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1996/11/18/1996_11_18_086_TNY_CARDS_000375852" at The New Yorker (18 November 1996)

“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 collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.”

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Speech entitled Freedom and Tolerance (June 1995), Cape Town Press Club

“You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.”

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Wallenberg Lecture (2008)

“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.”

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As quoted in "The Words of Desmond Tutu" (1984)

“The U. N. is as effective as its member states allow it to be.”

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This is actually a common observation, which has been made by many people, and thus far no published source has been found attributing it to Tutu. The earliest published variant thus far found was in Public Affairs Vol. 21 (1978) by the Gokhale Institute of Public Affairs, p. 102: : The United Nations is an inter-governmental body. It is made up of member states, and it can only be as effective as its member states allow it to be. A variant was also prominent in Ch. 6 of the Preventing Deadly Conflict : Final Report (1997) by the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/rept97/finfr.htm: : The main responsibility for addressing global problems, including deadly conflict, rests on governments. Acting individually and collectively, they have the power to work toward solutions or to hinder the process. The UN, of course, is only as effective as its member states allow it to be. Misattributed

“We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.”

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As quoted in "Profile: Archbishop Desmond Tutu" at BBC (24 May 2004)

“We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land.”

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Speech in Boston (2002)

“What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps we did not realise just how apartheid has damaged us so that we seem to have lost our sense of right and wrong.”

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As quoted in " Desmond Tutu turns 75 http://www.news24.com/World/News/Desmond-Tutu-turns-75-20061006" at News24 (6 October 2006)

“Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.”

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As quoted in "Truth and reconciliation" at BBC Focus on Africa (January-March 2000)

“Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.”

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As quoted in "Truth and reconciliation" at BBC Focus on Africa (January-March 2000)

“Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.”

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Quoted by L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley in letter to the editor Los Angeles Times (13 May 1985)

“Whether Jews like it or not, they are a peculiar people. They can't ever hope to be judged by the same standards which are used for other people.”

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As quoted in http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Nobel-winners-problem-with-a-peculiar-people-and-Israel (June 2, 2012)

“People are scared in this country, to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful — very powerful. Well, so what? For goodness sake, this is God's world! We live in a moral universe. The apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but in the end they bit the dust.”

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Speech in Boston (2002)

“Isn’t it desperately sad that, at a time when we face formidable problems – poverty, HIV/AIDS, conflict – that the Anglican Communion can invest so much energy on disagreements about human sexuality? A communion that used to boast that one of its distinctive characteristics was something called comprehensiveness, that our communion, the Anglican Church, included just about everybody. Even if you had the most weird theology you could come in, you were allowed. And now we, who used to be held up in admiration by many because of this inclusiveness, are now spending time working out how we can excommunicate one another. God looks on and God weeps. God weeps.”

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"And God Smiles," sermon preached at All Saints Church, Pasadena, California (6 November 2005)

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

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As quoted in "Truth and reconciliation" at BBC Focus on Africa (January-March 2000)

“We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.”

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

“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.”

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Beyers Naudé memorial lecture (15 August 2003)

“"Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems – poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict – that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation?" [The Communion, which] "used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers" now seems "hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep."”

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"Tutu calls on Anglicans to accept gay bishop" http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=33&idsub=128&id=2141 in Spero News (14 November 2005)

“At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.”

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Sermon in Tromsö, Norway (5 December 1991)

“[T]here is always the possibility of change. If it happened in South Africa, why can't it happen anywhere?”

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As quoted in "Archbishop urges battle with racism" http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-02-18/news/0202180155_1_racism-archbishop-desmond-tutu-st-sabina (18 February 2002), by Sabrina L. Miller, Chicago Tribune, Illinois

“We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.”

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“Forgiveness is one of the key ideas in this world. Forgiveness is not just some nebulous, vague idea that one can easily dismiss. It has to do with uniting people through practical politics. Without forgiveness there is no future.”

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Without Forgiveness There Is No Future (1998)

“We said no to communism. We said no to apartheid. We said no to injustice. We said no to oppression. And we said yes to freedom, yes to democracy. Now I ask you: What do we say to war? CROWD: No!”

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February 15, 2003 speaking before a massive rally in New York to oppose the imminent U.S. invasion of Iraq Quelle: As quoted in Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) on Apartheid, War, Palestine, Guantánamo, Climate Crisis & More https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/27/life_and_legacy_archbishop_desmond_tutu, Democracy Now!, December 27, 2021

“People marched and demonstrated, and the Berlin Wall fell, and communism was ended. People marched and demonstrated, and apartheid ended. And democracy and freedom were born. And now people are marching, and people are demonstrating, because people are saying no to war!”

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“Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. It is opening the door for the other person to have a chance to begin again. Without forgiveness, resentment builds in us, a resentment which turns into hostility and anger. Hatred eats away at our well-being.”

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Without Forgiveness There Is No Future (1998)