Desmond Tutu

“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”

“But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.”

“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”

“The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.”

“God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.”

“In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.”

“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.”

“God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”

“In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.”

“Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.”

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

“Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.”

“We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.”

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

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

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”

“In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.”

“Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.”

“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.”

“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”