I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Where we come from does not determine who we can become. What we look like places no limits on what we can… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so -- as… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men. — 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
