Desmond Tutu

Leader

78 Quotes

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

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

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

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

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.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

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

Harapan adalah kemampuan untuk melihat bahwa ada cahaya meskipun semua dalam kegelapan.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

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

Harga kebebasan adalah kewaspadaan yang abadi.

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