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
Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You will find that the Bible, if you want it to, will justify many things. St. Paul had a very male chauvinistic… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no… — 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
Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other. — 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
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
Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. — 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
When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no… — 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
No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you. — 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
