Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. — 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
What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom — 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
