Quotes by Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

… freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what’s the point of having made this transition if the quality of life … is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless.

Children

Home

Jobs

A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

Humans

Isolation

Persons

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

Order

People

Thinking

A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.

Leader

Light

Men

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Believe

Compassion

Mean

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

People

Taken

Want

And every human being is precious.

Human Beings

Humans

And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be – eagles, not chickens.

Beautiful

Graduation

Inspirational

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.

Justice

People

Rainbow

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

Dust

Humanity

People

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American Society

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Artist

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Bad Day

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Beacons

Beautiful

Being Smart

Believe

Beloved Community

Beloved Wife

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Black And White

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Blessing

Block

Blood

Blue

Book

Bows

Boys

Brother

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Quotes by Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

And every human being is precious.

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.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

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