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Desmond Tutu

“God is not a Christian. God accepts as pleasing those who live by the best lights available to them that they can discern. All truth, all sense of beauty, all awareness of goodness has one source, God, who is not confined to one place, time or people.”

Desmond Tutu
God Faith Good beauty search Christianity Seeking truth love

I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the gospel, period. The gospel is concerned with the whole person.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, 'Now is that political or social?' He said, 'I feed you.' Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

Desmond Tutu
social justice Faith gospel

"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."

Desmond Tutu
rights compassion equality

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.

Desmond Tutu
Oppression Justice Neutrality
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