Desmond Tutu Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Love is much more demanding than law.

I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.

When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

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

The world needs a revolution led by women

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.

One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

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

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ...

The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

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

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

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

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

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

A person is a person because s/he recognizes others as persons.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

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.

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

God is not a Christian.

One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.

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

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

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

Dream! Dream! And then go for it!

Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.

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

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

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

We need other human beings in order to be human.

God is not a diversion.