I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.
Interpretation
The quote conveys the idea that God does not judge individuals based on race, gender, or sexual orientation.
Desmond Tutu's quote challenges societal prejudices by expressing a belief in a compassionate and inclusive God. He emphasizes that divine judgment should not be based on superficial characteristics such as race, gender, or sexual orientation, suggesting that God values the essence of a person over societal biases. This perspective encourages acceptance and love among all individuals, irrespective of their identities.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about equality and civil rights.
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
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.
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.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.
Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.
all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes
Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.
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