The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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
One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new… — 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
And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us… — 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
We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo. — 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