“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
“Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
GoodAll Quotes by Desmond Tutu
“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“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”
Forgiveness“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
Hope“We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.”
God“The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.”
Family“But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.”
God“Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.”
Freedom“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.”
History“Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
Good“God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.”
Religion“Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?”
Amazing“In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.”
History“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
Hope“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
Peace“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
Religion“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.”
Best“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.”
God“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.”
Forgiveness“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