True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is… — 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
Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly… — 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
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
Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world. — 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
It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Love is universal. You don't have to tell somebody that loving is better than hating. You don't have to believe in God… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell… — 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
Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you. — 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
