Desmond Tutu Quotes

Do your little bit of good where you are it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

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.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

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

If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

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

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.

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.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

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

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

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

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.