We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil. Desmond Tutu More Quotes by Desmond Tutu More Quotes From Desmond Tutu Anything war can do, peace can do better. Desmond Tutu can-dowar There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse. Desmond Tutu accountabilityjusticefall Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew. Desmond Tutu get-updignitygrace Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional. Desmond Tutu sufferingsorrychildren Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us. Desmond Tutu eyedoorspast If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening. Desmond Tutu speaks-outsufferingwant The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time. Desmond Tutu earthrightschallenges We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly. Desmond Tutu environmentalfriendlypeople One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom. Desmond Tutu greatest-giftsgenerationsgiving Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen. Desmond Tutu symphonycommunityplay Where we come from does not determine who we can become. What we look like places no limits on what we can achieve. We should all have the right to express ourselves, all have the right to be heard, all have the right to be what we can be: To reach for the sky and touch the stars. No matter who we are, no matter whether we are man or woman, or rich or poor: Desmond Tutu rich-or-poorstarsmen True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse. Desmond Tutu nursingpeoplepast I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God. Desmond Tutu homophobichellworship South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. Desmond Tutu beaconsdarkworld One day we'll wake up and discover we are family. Desmond Tutu wake-upone-day It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, who were responsible for the Holocaust. It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ. Desmond Tutu religiouschristianjesus Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others. Desmond Tutu generositygratitudehumility And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together. Desmond Tutu rainbowjusticepeople Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration. Desmond Tutu goalreligiouspeople We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death. Desmond Tutu irrelevancegovernmentdog
