Desmond Tutu

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

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