I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You will find that the Bible, if you want it to, will justify many things. St. Paul had a very male chauvinistic… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of… — 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
Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember… — 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
Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new… — 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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