Desmond Tutu Quotes

Do your little bit of good where you are it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm ...

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they mi...

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who consider...

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people ar...

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray....

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not a...

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of i...

Do your little bit of good where you are it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm ...

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

A person is a person through other persons.None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would no...

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situa...

So often when people hear about the suffering in our world, they feel guilty, but rarely does guilt ...

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people i...

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards ...

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for to...

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elep...

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elep...

Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and to be free from the past. Without forgiveness, we ...

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's child...

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the AN...

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say '...

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his p...

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that so...

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward...

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've clo...

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known ...

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful action...

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened ...

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, ...

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divi...

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish com...

This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brou...

All modern humans are related to what scientists call "Mitochondrial Eve." This refers to our common...

The way to understand any enemy is to realize that, from his perspective, he is not a villain but a ...

If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know y...

It is a remarkable feat to be able to see past the inhumanity of the behavior and recognize the huma...

When you set out to change the world, the job seems insurmountable, but each of us can do his or her...

We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibi...

I'm actually very humbled listening to His Holiness,' the Archbishop said, 'because I've frequently ...

We are wired to be caring for the other and generous to one another. We shrivel when we are not able...

Discovering more joy does not, save us from th inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we...

You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to ...

The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives fresh water, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the w...

Symptoms of chronic stress are feelings of fragmentation and of chasing after time - of not being ab...

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much ...

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't ...

The fact is, rape is utterly commonplace in all our cultures. It is part of the fabric of everyday l...

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

Forgiveness is the way we return what has been taken from us and restore the love and kindness and t...

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or...

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realiz...

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in un...

Without forgiveness, there's no future.