All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else… — 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
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening. — 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
We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other. — 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
And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new… — 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
