Desmond Tutu

"Without forgiveness, there is no future. With forgiveness, there is possibility."

"The God who is worshipped must be a God of compassion and justice, or else the worship is idolatry."

"To forgive is not just to be altruistic. It is the best form of self-interest."

"We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters, or perish together as fools."

"A person is a person through other people. Our humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in theirs."

"The truth of who we are cannot be denied forever. It comes out in countless ways."

"Real reconciliation is never cheap, for it cost God everything."

"When the missionaries arrived, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes."

"Do your little bit of good where you are. It's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

"I wish I could eat your brain, because you are really smart and I'd like to be as intelligent as you."

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

"There is no future without forgiveness."

"We are different so that we may come to know and love one another."

"Part of our humanity is not just surviving, but flourishing, experiencing joy and laughter."

"Evil has power only when we allow it."

"One of the most serious diseases is the disease of not listening."

"Religion is most powerful when it challenges the status quo rather than affirming it."

"You cannot keep a person in the gutter without staying there with them."

"God's dream is that we should be agents of love, justice, and reconciliation."

"The sun does not discriminate against anyone. It shines on the just and the unjust alike."

"We are each other's answer to many prayers."

"Goodness is stronger than evil; love is stronger than hate."

"To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin, but it is also to recognize that he is a human being."

"The most important thing in our faith is that it compels us to act justly and love mercy."

"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless, but poverty is also being unwanted."

"Each of us is a spark from the divine, carrying a sacred purpose."

"The child in you has every right to play. We must balance work and joy."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate; it is that we are powerful beyond measure."

"Freedom does not mean the absence of constraints; it means living within constraints you accept."

"The cycle of violence must be broken; it begins with each of us choosing peace."