Quotes from Desmond Tutu

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

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

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

We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

Without forgiveness, there is no future.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

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.

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

No future without forgiveness.

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.

We are made for loving. If we dont love, we will be like plants without water.