Quotes from Desmond Tutu
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
- Desmond Tutu
When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
- Desmond Tutu
Ubuntu really says if you want to be nice to yourself, start in a way by being nice to the other.
- Desmond Tutu
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
- Desmond Tutu
God could have created us to be automatons who were always choosing the right side, making the right decision. It is an incredible thing, God said "I want persons" who therefore have freedom.
- Desmond Tutu
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
- Desmond Tutu
Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.
- Desmond Tutu
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
- Desmond Tutu
One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.
- Desmond Tutu
People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.
- Desmond Tutu
All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.
- Desmond Tutu
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
- Desmond Tutu