We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“You have stood at this junction before You will stand at this junction again And if you pause you can ask yourself… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. — 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
Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The reprisal against the suicide bomber does not bring peace. There is a suicide bomber, a reprisal and then a counter-reprisal. And… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no peace in South Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“I'm actually very humbled listening to His Holiness,' the Archbishop said, 'because I've frequently mentioned to people the fact of his serenity… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace… — 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
