Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?" — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People are killed because they're gay. I don't think, "What do I want to do today? I want to speak up on… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil. — 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 certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You have to say, whatever it is that I say or do or think or teach must be something that will be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I often accompanied my father. I really liked riding with him on his bicycle on Saturdays. He was very fond of fishing.… — 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
You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge… — 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
Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves… — 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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