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Desmond Tutu Quotes
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I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It’s thoroughly realistic. It’s real political in the long run (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
Freedom is indivisible. Whites can’t enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
We don’t want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can’t improve something that is intrinsically evil (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life (Desmond Tutu Quotes)
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity (Desmond Tutu Quotes)