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
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA]… — 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
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
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
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
The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time. — 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
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
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
What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the… — 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
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender,… — 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
When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons. — 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
We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as… — 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
I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human. — 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
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
