Desmond Tutu
“Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.”
“We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth.”
“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”
“Ubuntu is the essence of being human.”
“A person is a person through other persons.”
“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
“We are made for goodness.”
“God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family.”
“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”
“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”
“There is no future without forgiveness.”
“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”
“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”