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
It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future — 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
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
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
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future. — 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
“Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to despair, and we… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact… — 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
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
You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that… — 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
Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations. — 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
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
True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even… — 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
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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