The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't… — 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
Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Poverty - the greatest cause of human suffering on the planet - is itself exacerbated by conflict, competition for resources, injustice, even… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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
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
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 speaks of the very essence of being human… you are generous,… — 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
Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid… — 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
