Desmond Tutu

As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

Desmond Tutu

As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.

Desmond Tutu

Cultivate your forgiveness with your friends, with your family, with strangers, and with yourself. Remind yourself that every person you encounter carries a sorrow and a struggle. Recognize that we all share a fundamental humanity.

Desmond Tutu

Differences are not intended to seperate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realise our need for one another.

Desmond Tutu

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

Desmond Tutu

Dream! Dream! And then go for it!

Desmond Tutu

Equality is essential to human life and well-being.

Desmond Tutu

Healing means that our dignity is restored and we are able to move forward in our lives.

Desmond Tutu

I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.

Desmond Tutu

I’m not optimistic, no. I’m quite different. I’m hopeful. I am a prisoner of hope.

Desmond Tutu