We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.
Interpretation
Unity among people of all races is essential for freedom and humanity.
Desmond Tutu emphasizes the importance of solidarity and cooperation between different races for achieving true freedom and understanding humanity. He asserts that real survival and humanity can only be realized when people come together, irrespective of color, highlighting the interconnectedness of the human experience.
In practice
This quote can be used in speeches advocating for racial equality.
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.
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
Believing you are worthy of love means that you believe I deserve to be treated well - with respect and dignity. I deserve to be cherished and adored by someone. I am worthy of an intimate and fulfilling relationship. I won't settle for less than I deserve. I will do whatever it takes to create that for myself.
Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is...just forgive them and let it go.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard.... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.
We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives
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