Desmond Tutu

"You don9t choose your family. They are God9s gift to you."

- Desmond Tutu

"Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse."

- 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

"We are each made for goodness, love, and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths."

- 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

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

- 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

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

- Desmond Tutu

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness"

- Desmond Tutu

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness."

- Desmond Tutu

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. (Desmond Tutu)"

- Desmond Tutu

"If you want peace you don’t talk to your friends, you talk to your enemies."

- Desmond Tutu

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

- Desmond Tutu

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."

- Desmond Tutu

"But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next."

- Desmond Tutu

"Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future."

- Desmond Tutu

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

- Desmond Tutu

"If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family."

- Desmond Tutu

"Forgiveness is not weak. It takes courage to face and overcome powerful emotions."

- 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 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

"Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

- Desmond Tutu

"You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them."

- Desmond Tutu

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

- Desmond Tutu

"You don6t choose your family. They are God6s gift to you, as you are to them."

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Desmond Tutu

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you."

- 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