Quotes from Desmond Tutu
I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"
- Desmond Tutu
When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health.
- Desmond Tutu
Forgiving is good for your health.
- Desmond Tutu
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
- Desmond Tutu
Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defense of the Earth.
- Desmond Tutu
I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.
- Desmond Tutu
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'
- Desmond Tutu
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'
- Desmond Tutu
To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
- Desmond Tutu
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
- Desmond Tutu
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
- Desmond Tutu
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
- Desmond Tutu