You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere. — 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
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical,… — 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
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
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
A leader is someone you are not disappointed in placing trust in. When that person makes suggestions, you are inclined to trust… — 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
When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other… — 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
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
Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be… — 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
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
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'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
It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained 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
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
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in 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
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
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
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
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
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
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
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
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
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
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
“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
To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
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