Desmond Tutu

Leader

South Africa

1931 - 2021

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It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
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.
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.
Desmond Tutu
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
Desmond Tutu
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond Tutu
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
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And every human being is precious.
Desmond Tutu
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
Desmond Tutu
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Desmond Tutu