Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous,… — 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
