Desmond Tutu

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#biased #despised #favor #god #often

The universe can take quite a while to deliver. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#quite #take #universe #while

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#education #imperative #making #many #moral

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#diversity #inhabit #universe

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. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#blamed #crash #cups #edge #ground

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#accomplish #become #child #dreams #face

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#evil #genocide #happen #happens #intrinsically

You must show the world that you abhor fighting. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#fighting #must #show #world #you

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#carrying #crowd #many #only #out

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#been #case #church #community #death