Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021) was a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He was
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Quotes by Desmond Tutu
- Choose to forgive and free your heart.
- Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
- Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
- Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
- I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
- 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.
- My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.
- My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
- Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
- The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
- There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.
- Until we can forgive, we remain locked in our pain and locked out of the possibility of experiencing healing and freedom, locked out of the possibility of being at peace.
- Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
- Without forgiveness, there’s no future.
- You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.