519 Quotes by Desmond Tutu

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

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

If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial part of human life in which God's writ does not run. If it is not God's, then whose is it? Who is in charge if not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.