519 Quotes by Desmond Tutu

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.

The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

Full houses at the Assembly Rooms. To keep Michele sweet. That's basically it.