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Letter "B" » Bishop Desmond Tutu Quotes
«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.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| About:
Conquest,
Missionaries,
Religion
| Keywords:
Africa, bible, came, closed, land, missionaries, opened, Open Your Eyes, pray, The Bible, The Land
«You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.»
«If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| About:
Injustice
| Keywords:
appreciate, chosen, Chosen The, elephant, foot, injustice, mouse, neutral, neutrals, not neutral, oppressor, situations, tail
«A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.»
«We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
sinners, soft, soft spot, spot, standards, surprised
«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.»
«Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers, whites
«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.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
considers, crumb, crumbs, menu, menus, picking, pickings, picking up, table, Table of, thrown
«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.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| About:
Labor
| Keywords:
abundant, Africa, buttress, buttresses, buttressing, invest, South, South Africa, systems, vicious
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