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
I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as… — 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
