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
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars… — 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
An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Where we come from does not determine who we can become. What we look like places no limits on what we can… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are… — 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
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
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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