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Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
— Desmond Tutu
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
— Desmond Tutu
The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
— Desmond Tutu
Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
— Desmond Tutu
I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"
— Desmond Tutu
I am because other people are.
— Desmond Tutu
do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves.
— Desmond Tutu
Hate has no place in the house of God.
— Desmond Tutu
We are made for loving.
— Desmond Tutu
One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
— Desmond Tutu
Healing means that our dignity is restored and we are able to move forward in our lives.
— Desmond Tutu
There can be no healing without truth.
— Desmond Tutu
Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.
— Desmond Tutu
Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
— Desmond Tutu
Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
— Desmond Tutu
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
— Desmond Tutu
After all, we are created in the image of a God who is a diversity of persons who exist in ineffable unity. This
— Desmond Tutu
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.
— Desmond Tutu
Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.
— Desmond Tutu
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
— Desmond Tutu
We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.
— Desmond Tutu
The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.
— Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
— Desmond Tutu
Nursing a grudge is bad for your heath.
— Desmond Tutu
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
— Desmond Tutu
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
— Desmond Tutu
There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.
— Desmond Tutu
A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly. — Desmond Tutu
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
— Desmond Tutu
To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
— Desmond Tutu
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
— Desmond Tutu
We need other human beings in order to be human.
— Desmond Tutu
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
We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.
— Desmond Tutu
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
— Desmond Tutu
I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.
— Desmond Tutu
We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.
— Desmond Tutu
We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.
— Desmond Tutu
The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
— Desmond Tutu
If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
— Desmond Tutu
Dream! Dream! And then go for it!
— Desmond Tutu
Laugh more. Don't forget to enjoy the blessings that God bestows on this beautiful planet.
— Desmond Tutu
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
— Desmond Tutu
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
— Desmond Tutu
Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.
— Nelson Mandela
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
— Desmond Tutu
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
— Desmond Tutu
You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
— Desmond Tutu
I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.
— Desmond Tutu
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
— Desmond Tutu
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.
— Desmond Tutu
We would like to see you departing peacefully.
— Desmond Tutu
Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
— Desmond Tutu
And every human being is precious.
— Desmond Tutu
The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
— Desmond Tutu
God is not a diversion.
— Desmond Tutu
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
— Desmond Tutu
Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.
— Desmond Tutu
Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.
— Desmond Tutu
I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.
— Desmond Tutu
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ...
— Desmond Tutu
The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person.
— Desmond Tutu
It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.
— Desmond Tutu
