Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Cultivate your forgiveness with your friends, with your family, with strangers, and with yourself. Remind yourself that every person you encounter carries… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“In order to truly forgive oneself, one must either explicitly or implicitly acknowledge that one’s behavior was wrong and accept responsibility or… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“...the cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness does not relieve someone of responsibility for what they have done. Forgiveness does not erase accountability. It is not about turning… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“But just as we do not forgive for others, we also do not forgive for God.” — 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
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim… — 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 Image
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — 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 together, black… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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 Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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 Image
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
