Quotes from Desmond Tutu

We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.

We can only be human together.

Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through Him who loved us.

I have no doubt that in the future, the laws that criminalize human love and commitment will look the way the apartheid laws do to us now, so obviously wrong

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

I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

Nothing is too much trouble for Love.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

Love is much more demanding than law.

My flock is black, my flock is white. One has got to say to our people, "I love you. I care for you, enormously." And when I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

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.

The truth of who we are is that we are because we belong.

There can be no healing without truth.

God hopes that we are going to love God back.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

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.

The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

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.

The way God operates is on the basis of love.

Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.

When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.