35 quotes by Desmond Tutu

“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.” — Desmond Tutu

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

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“I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.” — Desmond Tutu

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“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.” — Desmond Tutu

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“God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?” — Desmond Tutu

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“All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.” — Desmond Tutu

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“Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.” — Desmond Tutu

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“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.” — Desmond Tutu

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“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.” — Desmond Tutu

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