519 Quotes by Desmond Tutu

It may seem daunting, but I am a prisoner of hope. We are more connected than ever before, we have more knowledge, and there are solutions if we work together. Today's technology is a great asset in encouraging global cooperation and understanding.

We have frequently gone into denial when faced with unpleasant, unpalatable facts and now we are hearing from governments in Africa that they are not going into denial but that they are facing up to a horrendous situation forthwith,

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

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

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

I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey home and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us.

We in Africa wonder: Can the world outside see the human beings -- or the potential partners -- behind the unrelenting despair?

I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.