Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it… — 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
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that… — 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
