Quotes from Desmond Tutu
If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
- 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
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
- Desmond Tutu
We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.
- Desmond Tutu
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.
- Desmond Tutu
Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.
- Desmond Tutu
I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.
- Desmond Tutu
Nothing is too much trouble for Love.
- Desmond Tutu
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
- Desmond Tutu
Love is much more demanding than law.
- Desmond Tutu
My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
- Desmond Tutu
The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.
- Desmond Tutu