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
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
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
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
True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When you think of the KKK, they actually have as their emblem a fiery cross. And they don't see any contradiction between… — 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
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
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
Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama."… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part… — 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
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
You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice.… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in…” quote by Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f8/desmond-tutu-442_air_he-s-a-tremendous-breath-of-fresh-air-th_2356662.jpg)
