Desmond Tutu Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“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.”

“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.”

“For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.”

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

“Hate has no place in the house of God.”

“Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.”

“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.”

“In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.”

“The universe can take quite a while to deliver.”

“When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.”