Desmond Tutu Quotes About Reconciliation

• Perdonar y reconciliarse con nuestros enemigos o nuestros seres queridos no consiste en fingir que las cosas son distintas de lo que son. No se trata de darnos palmaditas en la espalda y hacer la vista gorda ante el mal. La verdadera reconciliación expone lo horrible, el abuso, el dolor, la verdad. A veces puede incluso empeorar las cosas. Es una empresa arriesgada, pero al final merece la pena, porque sólo una confrontación honesta con la realidad puede traer la verdadera curación. Una reconciliación superficial sólo puede aportar una curación superficial.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hurt, Real, Healing

• Antes de que Nelson Mandela fuera detenido en 1962, era un hombre airado y relativamente joven. Fundó el ala militar del CNA. Cuando fue liberado, sorprendió a todos porque hablaba de reconciliación y perdón y no de venganza.

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Military, Men

• True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiving, Done, Repentance

• Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Real

  "The Truth About Forgiveness" by Wendy Strgar, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2010.

• We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

  Desmond Tutu

  Principles, Speak, Reconciliation

  Desmond Tutu John Webster (1982). "Obispo Desmond Tutu, la voz de quien clama en el desierto: recopilación de sus recientes declaraciones en la lucha por la justicia en Sudáfrica".

• La reconciliación es un proceso largo. No tenemos el tipo de enfrentamientos raciales que pensábamos que ocurrirían. Lo que tenemos es xenofobia, y es muy penoso. Pero quizá deberían ser indulgentes con nosotros. Sólo llevamos 12 años libres.

  Desmond Tutu

  Xenophobia, Race, Years

  Interview with Sonja Steptoe, content.time.com. October 17, 2006.

• When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between the cross, an instrument of suffering that procured our reconciliation with God, and its use as a symbol for nefarious attacks on black people. But they believe that they are being obedient to God because they can read things that they see.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Thinking, Kkk

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

• There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until there be first justice enjoyed by all the inhabitants of that beautiful land. The Bible knows nothing about peace without justice, for that would be crying "peace, peace, where there is no peace". God's Shalom, peace, involves inevitably righteousness, justice, wholeness, fullness of life, participation in decision-making, goodness, laughter, joy, compassion, sharing and reconciliation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Laughter, Real

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

• Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Thinking, Differences

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