Quote

There is room for everyone there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

Desmond Tutu

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Desmond Tutu
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Race
Point
Language
Everyone
Culture
View
Every
Room
Rooms
Views

More quotes by Desmond Tutu

Image
Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but.
Desmond Tutu
Image
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
Desmond Tutu
Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.
Desmond Tutu
Image
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Desmond Tutu
Image
Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.
Desmond Tutu
Image
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
Desmond Tutu
Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why not? Because we are practically the ultimate paradox: the finite made for the infinite.
Desmond Tutu
Image
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
Desmond Tutu
Image
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Desmond Tutu
Image
Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, Do you remember what happened to you? Then they clobber you and say, You are anti-Semitic.
Desmond Tutu
Image
The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.
Desmond Tutu
Image
That so called original sin does not know any racial discrimination.
Desmond Tutu
Image
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.
Desmond Tutu
Image
God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
Desmond Tutu
Image
Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
Desmond Tutu
Image
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
Desmond Tutu
Image
Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
Desmond Tutu
Image
You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.
Desmond Tutu
Image
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
Image
When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.
Desmond Tutu