Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid.
Born: October 7, 1931
Full name: Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Awards: Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
Without forgiveness, there’s no future.
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
We are made for loving. If we dont love, we will be like plants without water.
Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
Good 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 loves us.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone’s back.
