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
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
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam,… — 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
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
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
I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the… — 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
You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere. — 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
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
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
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
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? — 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
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
To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage… — 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
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
Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves… — 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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