Desmond Tutu Quotes.
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.
To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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.
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.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
I can’t control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
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.
And every human being is precious.
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
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.
Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.
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.
Oh, 1994, April 27. There won’t be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
