Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — 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
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
You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to… — 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
