God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side ... a better person than… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind… — 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
