Desmond Tutu Quotes :
God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond Tutu
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
DESMOND TUTU
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
DESMOND TUTU
The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.
DESMOND TUTU
Oh, 1994, April 27. There won’t be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
DESMOND TUTU
And every human being is precious.
DESMOND TUTU
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
DESMOND TUTU
God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
DESMOND TUTU
The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
DESMOND TUTU
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.
DESMOND TUTU
In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
DESMOND TUTU
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.
DESMOND TUTU
I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
DESMOND TUTU
Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.
DESMOND TUTU
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
DESMOND TUTU
I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.
DESMOND TUTU
Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
DESMOND TUTU
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
DESMOND TUTU
It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
DESMOND TUTU
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
DESMOND TUTU
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
DESMOND TUTU
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
DESMOND TUTU
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
DESMOND TUTU
I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.
DESMOND TUTU
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
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
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
DESMOND TUTU
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
DESMOND TUTU
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
DESMOND TUTU
Without forgiveness, there’s no future.
DESMOND TUTU