“Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.”
Education
“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
PeaceAll Quotes by Desmond Tutu
“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”
Family“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
Hope“Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?”
Amazing“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.”
Death“The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.”
Peace“Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.”
Education“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.”
Dreams“The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.”
Family“Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
Good“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.”
Nature“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.”
Society“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
Hope“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.”
Best“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.”
Freedom“Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.”
Forgiveness“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.”
Peace“God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.”
Religion“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.”
God“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
Peace