“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.”
Family
“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.”
PeaceAll Quotes by Desmond Tutu
“Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.”
Education“God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.”
Religion“Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.”
Freedom“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“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“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
Freedom“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.”
Courage“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
Hope“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”
Forgiveness“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”
Family“Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?”
Amazing“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“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“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“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”
Forgiveness“In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.”
History“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“In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.”
Peace“If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”
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