What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? — 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
Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was… — 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
This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What has happened to us? It seems as if we have perverted our freedom, our rights into license, into being irresponsible. Perhaps… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It may seem daunting, but I am a prisoner of hope. We are more connected than ever before, we have more knowledge,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that… — 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