Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect… — 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
Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of… — 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
There’s no question about the reality of evil, of injustice, of suffering, but at the center of this existence is a heart… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at… — 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
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
Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I… — 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
I often accompanied my father. I really liked riding with him on his bicycle on Saturdays. He was very fond of fishing.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves… — 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
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
You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human. — 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
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
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
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who… — 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
