Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it. Desmond Tutu View this quote
If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone’s priority. Let’s make all children visible and let’s give every child a birthday! Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
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
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. Desmond Tutu
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men. Desmond Tutu
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. Desmond Tutu
Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experinces in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful. Desmond Tutu
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days. Desmond Tutu
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. Desmond Tutu
Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished. Desmond Tutu
One day we’ll wake up and discover we are family. Desmond Tutu
South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
October 7th, 1931