If we succeed in empowering girls, we'll succeed in everything else. Desmond Tutu More Quotes by Desmond Tutu More Quotes From Desmond Tutu You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders. Desmond Tutu shoulders crowds standing-out The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. Desmond Tutu oneness family humans Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are. Desmond Tutu peaceful ubuntu world Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others. Desmond Tutu insecurity arrogance feelings When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal. Desmond Tutu numbness pain guilt People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. Desmond Tutu powerful country people I am not an afterthought I am not an accident. Desmond Tutu afterthought accidents 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. Desmond Tutu upset christian children True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know. Desmond Tutu repentance forgiving done 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 diversity made people 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. Desmond Tutu xenophobia slavery racism Without forgiveness, there's no future. Desmond Tutu forgiveness inspiring inspirational We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. Desmond Tutu humans together long As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you. Desmond Tutu return fashion past I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things. Desmond Tutu should-have men believe If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God. Desmond Tutu homophobic ifs worship The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future Desmond Tutu nature children world Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence. Desmond Tutu forgiveness existence humans We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. Desmond Tutu integrity-and-character integrity character Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. Desmond Tutu shining air order
