Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Of course, you've got to reckon with the burden of the past. You can't just easily dismiss it. It is a legacy… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like… — 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
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God says "This is what I would love you to be, but I am not going to constrain you. I want it… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we… — 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
There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Symptoms of chronic stress are feelings of fragmentation and of chasing after time - of not being able to be present. What… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying… — 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
The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“...the cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Look at Nelson Mandela. Why did people want to follow him? He's a lousy speaker. If he hadn't got all the other… — 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
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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