3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu 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.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
3 December 2020 Desmond Tutu Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
