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“Injustice and oppression will never prevail.”
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.
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 255
Misattributed
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)
Zdroj: God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
Varianta: Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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.”
Hope and Suffering: Sermons and Speeches (1984)
Speech (1985) as quoted in Equality, Volume 1, Issue 1 (1989)
Hope and Suffering: Sermons and Speeches (1984)
“Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.”
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.”
Attributed but unsourced
Zdroj: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/ActNow/blog/january-2015/Faith-and-politics-a-match-made-in-heaven.aspx
Zdroj: 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.”
As quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (20 December 1984)
