Desmond Tutu Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“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.”

“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”

“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.”

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”

“God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”

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

“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”

“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.”