Quotes By Desmond Tutu

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

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.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Hate has no place in the house of God.