Desmond Tutu

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.

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

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.

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.

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

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.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

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

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.

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.

Do your little bit of good where you are its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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.