Wrong Is Wrong Quotes by Desmond Tutu

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

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

— Desmond Tutu

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

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

— Desmond Tutu

Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences.

— Desmond Tutu

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

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

— Desmond Tutu

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

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

— Desmond Tutu

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

— Desmond Tutu

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

“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

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

— Desmond Tutu

It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate…

— Desmond Tutu

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

— Desmond Tutu