Hello everyone,
We should all be done with research on our Non-Western World Leader paper, so I think that we should all share with each other a couple of our favorite quotes from our leader. As you can see I ended up switching from Arundhati Roy to Desmond Tutu! I found millions of quotes that I would absolutely love to share with all of you, but here are a couple that I picked:
"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin" (Desmond Tutu).
""But they are sinners," I can hear the preachers and politicians say. "They are choosing a life of sin for which they must be punished." My scientist and medical friends have shared with me a reality that so many gay people have confirmed, I now know it in my heart to be true. No one chooses to be gay. Sexual orientation, like skin color, is another feature of our diversity as a human family" (Desmond Tutu).
What quotes have you found that stood out to you? Share with us!
""But they are sinners," I can hear the preachers and politicians say. "They are choosing a life of sin for which they must be punished." My scientist and medical friends have shared with me a reality that so many gay people have confirmed, I now know it in my heart to be true. No one chooses to be gay. Sexual orientation, like skin color, is another feature of our diversity as a human family" (Desmond Tutu).
What quotes have you found that stood out to you? Share with us!
Lesly,
ReplyDeleteI think it's important to note that we take the freedoms that Desmond Tutu is referencing for granted. We may think that what he is saying has all been said before. What is important is that where he is saying these things could cost him his life. He is an influential person in Africa, where there are laws that would even execute someone who is thought to be gay. If it weren't for the work he has done in South Africa to make it a more tolerant country, things could be much worse. I look forward to what you find in your research.
Exactly Ms. Hill! :)
ReplyDeleteWhile I was writing my essay I didn't feel like I was doing an assignment, but rather just enlightening myself with Tutu's philosophies! I seriously wish I had MORE time to work on this paper since I JUST recently switched to him! He is definitely the embodiment of hope for the people of South Africa because he risked his life to make change in his country. I found a quote by Martin Luther King Jr that I believe is VERY relevant to Tutu's motivation:
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter….The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy"
It's hard to understand that many of the freedoms that we have are taken for granted and are robbed from the people in other countries. Like King said, Tutu wasn't silent about the matter and he stood up and fought against the apartheid regime for his people. I cannot wait to educate the class on his work!
Hey, along with quotes and stuff from our NWWLs, I think we should also post what we wanted to talk about them and see if we can find the whish are the most influential ones.
ReplyDeleteI say again and again that I am a poet, that I am not a fighter by nature. I would give everything to be one with my surroundings. I love my fellow beings and I prize their love.
ReplyDeleteClouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Our country is the land of rites and ceremonials, so that we have more faith in worshiping the feet of the priest than the Divinity whom he serves.
These are three quotes I really loved by Rabindranath Tagore. He speaks heavily of peace and he always believed in the mixing of different cultures. He also believed in religion but that it was more of a spiritual thing than that of what we have here in the United States. Being a Christian I know we see it as both a spiritual and a physical thing (ie-going to church), equally; while in India it has been heavily spiritual.
I LOVE HOW SUCH MEN AND WOMEN ARE SOEAKING FROM THE HEART NOT FROM WHAT THEY HAVE SEEN BUT RATHER WHAT THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED. SUCH QUALITY GIVES THEIR RIGHT AN INFLUENTIAL TONE TO THEIRS WORDS WHICH CAUSES AND EFFECT UPON ITS READERS OR RESEARCHERS IN THIS CASE US. SUCH PEOPLE EXPERIENCED SUCH THINGS ALLOWING TO LEARN FROM THEIR SACRIFICES AND GOALS.
ReplyDeleteFor my World Leader Project , I chose Kofi Annan. As the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, he is very influential to the world. With this noted, he has exceedingly excellent speech giving skills. A couple of my favortite quotes are:
ReplyDelete“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
“We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.”
Wow Jasmine, I really like the first quote. It definitely makes me think a lot about the position that we are currently in -college bound. :)
ReplyDeleteWell said Hubert! You cannot connect unless you have actually experienced it. That changes everything. We cannot sympathize with the poor because we've never been poor. If were once were, then that takes your influence into a whole different level.
Bernie, in that case, you should share something about your leader.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. ~Winston Churchill
ReplyDeleteMan's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~Standing Bear
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. ~Galileo