Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Desmond Tutu

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

Desmond Tutu

Giving the emotion a name is the way we come to understand how what happened affected us. After we’ve told the facts of what happened, we must face our feelings. We are each hurt in our own unique ways, and when we give voice to this pain, we begin to heal it.

Desmond Tutu

God is not a Christian.

Desmond Tutu

God is on the side of the oppressed.

Desmond Tutu

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Desmond Tutu

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Desmond Tutu

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Desmond Tutu

I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

Desmond Tutu

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Desmond Tutu