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Desmond Tutu — Portrait after a picture by Benny Gool (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Desmond Tutu

South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

1931–2021

7 quotes, most often on God, Freedom and Justice.

We don’t want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can’t improve something that is intrinsically evil.
Speech (1985) as quoted in Equality, Volume 1, Issue 1 (1989)
- Good & Evil
- Race
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)
- Family
- God
Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.
Without Forgiveness There Is No Future (1998)
- Forgiveness
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he’d rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
Beyers Naudé memorial lecture (15 August 2003)
- Freedom
- God
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.
Today, NBC TV (9 January 1985)
- Freedom
- Justice
You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.
Wallenberg Lecture (2008)
- God
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
As quoted in Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes (1984) by Robert McAfee Brown, p. 19
- Justice

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