Desmond Tutu

Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one’s spiritual existence.

Desmond Tutu

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

Desmond Tutu

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness gives up the capacity to make a new start… And forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up, and get up with dignity, to become anew.

Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is nothing less than the way we heal the world. We heal the world by healing each and every one of our hearts. The process is simple, but it is not easy.

Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

Desmond Tutu