I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You ask when is it that you can say yes we have had enough. It is enough revenge and I think now… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We have an incredible capacity for the worst possible evil, all of us, it was that we also have this incredible capacity… — 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
