Desmond Tutu Quotes About Diversity
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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
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Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
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For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
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When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
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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.
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Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition.
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