Desmond Tutu Quotes And Sayings

Those Who Invest In South Africa Should Not Think They Are Doing Us A Favor; They Are Here For What They Get Out Of Our Cheap And Abundant Labor, And They Should Know That They Are Buttressing One Of The Most Vicious Systems.

Be Nice To The Whites, They Need You To Rediscover Their Humanity.

We Would Like To See You Departing Peacefully.

In The Land Of My Birth I Cannot Vote, Whereas A Young Person Of Eighteen Can Vote. And Why? Because He Or She Possesses That Wonderful Biological Attribute - A White Skin.

Children Are A Wonderful Gift. They Have An Extraordinary Capacity To See Into The Heart Of Things And To Expose Sham And Humbug For What They Are.

In God's Family, There Are No Outsiders, No Enemies.

Your Ordinary Acts Of Love And Hope Point To The Extraordinary Promise That Every Human Life Is Of Inestimable Value.

And Every Human Being Is Precious.

All The United States, It Is A Society That Is Split Like To The Bottom, That Had Very Poor People In The Country That Is One Of The Wealthiest Countries.

Many People Would Be Surprised That, In Fact, I'm Quite Shy.

It's A Blessing That South Africa Has A Man Like Nelson Mandela.

I Mean In The South African Case, Many Of Those Who Were Part Of Death Squads Would Have Been Respectable Members Of Their White Community, People Who Went To Church On Sunday, Every Sunday.

Before Nelson Mandela Was Arrested In 1962, He Was An Angry, Relatively Young Man. He Founded The Anc's Military Wing. When He Was Released, He Surprised Everyone Because He Was Talking About Reconciliation And Forgiveness And Not About Revenge.

When A Pile Of Cups Is Tottering On The Edge Of The Table And You Warn That They Will Crash To The Ground, In South Africa You Are Blamed When That Happens.

In Many Ways, When You're A Nobel Peace Laureate, You Have An Obligation To Humankind, To Society.

A Person Is A Person Because He Recognizes Others As Persons.

I Think That Most Of Us Would Prefer To Be Popular Than Unpopular.

Because Forgiveness Is Like This: A Room Can Be Dank Because You Have Closed The Windows, You've Closed The Curtains. But The Sun Is Shining Outside, And The Air Is Fresh Outside. In Order To Get That Fresh Air, You Have To Get Up And Open The Window And Draw The Curtains Apart.

What Is Black Empowerment When It Seems To Benefit Not The Vast Majority But An Elite That Tends To Be Recycled?

The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal Vigilance.

I Have Been To The Occupied Palestinian Territory, And I Have Witnessed The Racially Segregated Roads And Housing That Reminded Me So Much Of The Conditions We Experienced In South Africa Under The Racist System Of Apartheid.

As Human Beings We Have The Most Extraordinary Capacity For Evil. We Can Perpetrate Some Of The Most Horrendous Atrocities.