We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find… — 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
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
Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can… — 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
We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is no situation that is not transformable. There is no person who is hopeless. There is no set of circumstances that… — 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
God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being. — 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
