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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Written by Desmond Tutu
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.
Written by Desmond Tutu
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.
Written by Desmond Tutu
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Written by Desmond Tutu
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Written by Desmond Tutu
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
Written by Desmond Tutu
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
Written by Desmond Tutu
Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
Written by Desmond Tutu
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Written by Desmond Tutu
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Written by Desmond Tutu
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Written by Desmond Tutu
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Written by Desmond Tutu
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
Written by Desmond Tutu
You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
Written by Desmond Tutu
We would like to see you departing peacefully.
Written by Desmond Tutu
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Written by Desmond Tutu
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Written by Desmond Tutu
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Written by Desmond Tutu
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
Written by Desmond Tutu
Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
Written by Desmond Tutu
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Written by Desmond Tutu
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.
Written by Desmond Tutu
In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
Written by Desmond Tutu
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Written by Desmond Tutu
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.
Written by 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.
Written by Desmond Tutu
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.
Written by Desmond Tutu
Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.
Written by Desmond Tutu
And every human being is precious.
Written by Desmond Tutu
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Written by Desmond Tutu

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