There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely W…

Desmond Tutu
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew. ✨ Recovering From Apartheid by Tina Rosenberg, www.newyorker.com. November 18, 1996.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. ✨ Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). The words of Desmond Tutu, Newmarket Pr
We need other human beings in order to be human. ✨ Michael Battle, Desmond Tutu (2009). Ubuntu: I in You and You in Me, p.54, Church Publishing, Inc.
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.
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