It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You will find that the Bible, if you want it to, will justify many things. St. Paul had a very male chauvinistic… — 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
The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at… — 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
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
When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other. — 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
Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of… — 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
We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no… — 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