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Desmond Tutu Quotes | Quotes said by Desmond Tutu

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #1

    A person is a person through other persons.

    None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.


  • Desmond Tutu Quote #2

    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 Quote #3

    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 Quote #4

    But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #5

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

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #6

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

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #7

    Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #8

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

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #9

    God is not a Christian.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #10

    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.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #11

    God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #12

    Hate has no place in the house of God.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #13

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

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #14

    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.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #15

    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 Quote #16

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

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #17

    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 Quote #18

    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 Quote #19

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

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #20

    In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #21

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

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

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

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #24

    It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #25

    Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #26

    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.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #27

    My father always used to say, Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument. Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #28

    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

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #29

    Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

  • Desmond Tutu Quote #30

    Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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