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
If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me… — 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
