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
Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts… — 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
People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't struggle to forgive people. I find it quite easy to forgive people for the harms that they have inflicted on… — 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