People Quotes by Desmond Tutu

I am because other people are.

— Desmond Tutu

I have a lot of time for young people.

— Desmond Tutu

People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

— Desmond Tutu

God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.

— Desmond Tutu

Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

— Desmond Tutu

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

— Desmond Tutu

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.

— Desmond Tutu

I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.

— Desmond Tutu

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

— Desmond Tutu

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

— Desmond Tutu

Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be…

— Desmond Tutu

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

— Desmond Tutu

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

— Desmond Tutu

We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have…

— Desmond Tutu

Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse.…

— Desmond Tutu

It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here…

— Desmond Tutu

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of…

— Desmond Tutu

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical,…

— Desmond Tutu

What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the…

— Desmond Tutu

A leader is someone you are not disappointed in placing trust in. When that person makes suggestions, you are inclined to trust…

— Desmond Tutu

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another…

— Desmond Tutu

Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other…

— Desmond Tutu

I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be…

— Desmond Tutu

Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness…

— Desmond Tutu

I don't struggle to forgive people. I find it quite easy to forgive people for the harms that they have inflicted on…

— Desmond Tutu

We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make…

— Desmond Tutu

There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts…

— Desmond Tutu

I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.…

— Desmond Tutu

To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage…

— Desmond Tutu

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

— Desmond Tutu

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

— Desmond Tutu

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

— Desmond Tutu

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

— Desmond Tutu

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

— Desmond Tutu

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

— Desmond Tutu

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

— Desmond Tutu

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

— Desmond Tutu

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite…

— Desmond Tutu

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

— Desmond Tutu

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

— Desmond Tutu