Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — 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
People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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
One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have… — 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
People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I hope that you will be amongst those young people who say we worked to change the world. We worked to make… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them. — 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
When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst… — 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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