There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You have to say, whatever it is that I say or do or think or teach must be something that will be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It may seem daunting, but I am a prisoner of hope. We are more connected than ever before, we have more knowledge,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama."… — 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
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