Quotes by Desmond Tutu

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

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

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

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

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.