Desmond Tutu Quotes

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  Hate has no place in the house of God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in God

  Tags in Hate, Place
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  Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Action

• I have struggled against tyranny. I didn’t do that in order to substitute one tyranny with another.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized

• We don’t want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can’t improve something that is intrinsically evil.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized
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  If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness’ sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say: Power to the women.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Stand Up

• Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don’t have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Religion

• We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in God

• We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in God
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  If you are neutral on situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Truth, Wisdom

  Tags in Oppressor, Situations

• Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Inspirational

• What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Majority

• When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Blamed

• You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Family, God

  Tags in Gifts

• Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Future

• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Opportunity, Truth

  Tags in Injustice

• It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mandela, Africa

• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sky, Mean

• People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Despised, Weak

• The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Deliver, Universe

• 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.

  Desmond Tutu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imperative, Universal

Desmond Tutu (80)

Birth:	7th October, 1931
Nationality:	South African
Profession:	Activist, Bishop

About

Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born in Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal, South Africa. He is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop. He has campaigned to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism, the imprisonment of Chelsea Manning, homophobia and transphobia. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism in 1986; the Pacem in Terris Award in 1987; the Sydney Peace Prize in 1999; the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007; and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Tutu travelled to King's College London, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in theology.

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