Desmond Tutu Quotes, Thoughts and images

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Love is much more demanding than law.

Peace without justice is an impossibility.

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

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.

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

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

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

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

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?"

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

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

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

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.

All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

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.

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

We need other human beings in order to be human.

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

Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through Him who loved us.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

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

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.

No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve it

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

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.