That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption. — 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… — 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
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression,… — 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
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
