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
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
And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want… — 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
Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
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
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
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
When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!'… — 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
I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people… — 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
Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western… — 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
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
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the… — 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice… — 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
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
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
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
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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