{"author":"Desmond Tutu","author_id":"Desmond+Tutu","total_quotes":63,"quotes":[{"text":"When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say 'I will shut up', I can't.","author":"Desmond Tutu","tags":["discipline","doom","judgement","prophecy","rebellion","speaking-up","truth"],"id":5626,"author_id":"Desmond+Tutu"},{"text":"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.","author":"Desmond Tutu","tags":["diversity","unity","believe "],"id":10537,"author_id":"Desmond+Tutu"},{"text":"Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.","author":"Desmond Tutu","tags":["foundation","inclusive "],"id":12994,"author_id":"Desmond+Tutu"},{"text":"You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.","author":"Desmond Tutu","tags":["humanity","relationship"],"id":18380,"author_id":"Desmond+Tutu"},{"text":"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.","author":"Desmond Tutu","tags":["freedom","justice","liberty","rights"],"id":23589,"author_id":"Desmond+Tutu"},{"text":"God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.","author":"Desmond Tutu","tags":["love","great","god "],"id":27900,"author_id":"Desmond+Tutu"},{"text":"Forgiveness is the way we return what has been taken from us and restore the love and kindness and trust that has been lost. With each act of forgiveness, whether small or great, we move toward wholeness. Forgiveness is nothing less than how we bring peace to ourselves and our world.","author":"Desmond Tutu","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":34118,"author_id":"Desmond+Tutu"},{"text":"It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.","author":"Desmond Tutu","tags":["faith","inspirational","spiritual"],"id":35639,"author_id":"Desmond+Tutu"},{"text":"We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.","author":"Desmond Tutu","tags":["god","world-peace"],"id":45870,"author_id":"Desmond+Tutu"},{"text":"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.","author":"Desmond Tutu","tags":["light","darkness","see "],"id":54497,"author_id":"Desmond+Tutu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}