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
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak… — 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
