“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” ― Desmond Tutu
“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.” ― Desmond Tutu
“You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Somewhere deep inside us we seem to know that we are destined for something better than strife.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Dream. Dream. And then go for it!” ― Desmond Tutu
“We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.” ― Desmond Tutu
“I’m coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. a good deed doesn’t just evaporate and disappear.” ― Desmond Tutu
“There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.” ― Desmond Tutu
“All we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans too.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Today we have no excuses.” ― Desmond Tutu
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” ― Desmond Tutu
“We are not responsible for what breaks us, but we can be responsible for what puts us back together again. Naming the hurt is how we begin to repair our broken parts.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Without forgiveness, there’s no future.” ― Desmond Tutu
“The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.” ― Desmond Tutu
“We learn from history that we don’t learn from history!” – Desmond Tutu
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” ― Desmond Tutu
“It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we measure up as men.” ― Desmond Tutu
“My father used to say, don’t raise your voice; improve your argument.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ― Desmond Tutu
“The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.” ― Desmond Tutu
“If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up.” ― Desmond Tutu
“We are always at our best when compassion enables us to recognize the unique pressures and singular stories of the people on the other side of our conflicts.” ― Desmond Tutu
“The universe can take quite a while to deliver.” ― Desmond Tutu
“We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.” ― Desmond Tutu
“The quality of human life on our planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with one another. Each time we help, and each time we harm, we have a dramatic impact on our world.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.” ― Desmond Tutu
“A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Your ordinary acts of hope and love point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.” ― Desmond Tutu
“We learn from history that we don’t learn from history!” ― 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
“Inclusive, good -quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.” ― Desmond Tutu
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” ― Desmond Tutu
“It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone.” ― 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
“To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.” ― Desmond Tutu
“I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.” ― Desmond Tutu
“Ultimately our greatest joy is when we seek to do good for others.” ― Desmond Tutu
“There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom” ― Desmond Tutu
