519 Quotes by Desmond Tutu

When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.

Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.

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

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect of our stories of ourselves. That means that somebody else gets to say who we are, somebody else gets to decide how we feel, and somebody else gets to decide how we see the world. Forgiveness not only frees us from the burden of someone else's opinion of us, but it allows us the opportunity to really write a story of ourselves that we can love, enjoy, relish, and live into.

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.