When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“You have stood at this junction before You will stand at this junction again And if you pause you can ask yourself… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
“child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.” — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
