Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.
Desmond Tutu
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Show
Use
Energy
Shows
Destructively
Care
Evoke
Must
Positively
Things
Anger
Direct
More quotes by Desmond Tutu
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Desmond Tutu
I regard Abraham as my ancestor. Some of the greatest inspiration I have got has come from what we call the Old Testament prophets and what Jews would say our prophets.
Desmond Tutu
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
Desmond Tutu
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
Desmond Tutu
Being formed into a nation takes some doing.
Desmond Tutu
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
Desmond Tutu
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
God says, Please, please help me realize this dream. And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.
Desmond Tutu
There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.
Desmond Tutu
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
Desmond Tutu
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
Desmond Tutu
Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
Desmond Tutu
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
Desmond Tutu
I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.
Desmond Tutu
It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future
Desmond Tutu
All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
Desmond Tutu
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Desmond Tutu
I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, How would I have wanted to be treated?
Desmond Tutu
Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.
Desmond Tutu