519 Quotes by Desmond Tutu

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

It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

It isn't that it's questionable when you speak up for the right of people with different sexual orientation. People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation. People are killed because they're gay.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

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

You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

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

Nothing is too much trouble for Love.