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.
Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.
But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended family and regional networks that substituted for older clan structures. But those networks have been destroyed.
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