Quotes from Desmond Tutu
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
— Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
— Desmond Tutu
Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.
— Desmond Tutu
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
— Desmond Tutu
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
— Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
— Desmond Tutu
We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
— Desmond Tutu
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.
— Desmond Tutu
The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future.
— Desmond Tutu
God is forever using especially young people, not oldies like us, God likes using young people.
— Desmond Tutu
God is on the side of the oppressed.
— Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
— Desmond Tutu