I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be… — 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… — 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
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
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
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Despite all of the ghastliness in the world, human beings are made for goodness. The ones that are held in high regard… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to… — 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
It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie… — 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
