Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God says "I have given you this gift, and it is a real gift. I want you to love me freely, and… — 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
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember… — 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
