If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond TutuMots clés courage dissent moral-courage protest bullying neutrality
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
Desmond TutuWe may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond TutuThere is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
Desmond TutuWe learn from history that we don't learn from history!
Desmond TutuMots clés history desmond-tutu south-africa
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond TutuA person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
Desmond TutuMots clés togetherness community belonging oneness ubuntu
In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
Desmond TutuDo your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Desmond TutuMots clés kindness goodness incrementalism
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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