Desmond Tutu Quotes

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

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

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.

If I diminish you, I diminish myself

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

Joe Biden should end the US pretence over Israel’s ‘secret’ nuclear weapons.

Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

Israel has managed to maintain its oppressive system using not just the guns of soldiers, but also by keeping this nuclear gun pointed at the heads of millions.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

If we succeed in empowering girls, we’ll succeed in everything else.