Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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
We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. — 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
We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA]… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender,… — 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
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
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid… — 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
Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can… — 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
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
If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's,… — 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
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
I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human. — 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
Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and… — 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
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
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