Desmond Tutu Quotes
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Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'
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We refuse to be treated as the doormat for the government to wipe its jackboots on.
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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.
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Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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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.
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If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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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.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
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The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
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Hate has no place in the house of God.
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
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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.
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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.
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For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
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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.
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
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We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.
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When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
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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.
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Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.