Desmond Tutu

"True leadership is about serving others with humility and grace."

"We are all walking wounded in some way."

"Beloved community is not a dream; it is a calling."

"When we love one another, we reflect the divine image."

"We are not made for ourselves alone. We are made for one another, and in serving each other we find our greatest joy."

"The function of leadership is not to produce more leaders, but to produce more followers of a just cause."

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

"Without forgiveness, there is no future. Without hope, there is no progress."

"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master."

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

"When you light a candle, you don't lose anything—you gain light. So it is with sharing knowledge and wisdom."

"There is no neutral ground in a universe that God has made. Truth by nature must be particular."

"God's love is not conditional upon our being worthy. It is a gift freely given."

"The God who matters is the God of love, the God who cares for the vulnerable and the marginalized."

"We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world, but Alleluia is our final word."

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

"You are not an accident. You are made in the image of God, and you have infinite worth."

"The most powerful weapon available to oppressed people is solidarity and togetherness."

"Real leaders are willing to lose everything for a principle."

"Children are our most precious resource and our hope for tomorrow."

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."

"We spend so much time asking God to do things, when what God really wants is for us to be agents of change."

"Suffering is not a punishment but an opportunity to grow in compassion and understanding."

"The struggle for justice is not a burden but a privilege and an honor."

"Ubuntu means I am because we are. Isolated, we are nothing."

"To forgive is not to be weak. It is the strongest thing you can possibly do."

"If you want peace and justice, you have to be willing to work for it every single day."

"Reconciliation is not about pretending the past didn't happen. It's about building a new future together."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure."

"God does not care much for religion if it denies the dignity of human beings."