519 Quotes by Desmond Tutu

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.