Quotes from Desmond Tutu
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
- Desmond Tutu
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
- Desmond Tutu
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much rather go to hell - than go to a homophobic heaven.
- Desmond Tutu
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
- Desmond Tutu
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
- Desmond Tutu
If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!
- Desmond Tutu
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
- Desmond Tutu
You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
- Desmond Tutu
For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
- Desmond Tutu
We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
- Desmond Tutu
Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
- Desmond Tutu
If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, "power to the women".
- Desmond Tutu