Desmond Tutu

"We cannot negotiate with injustice; we can only overcome it through moral courage."

"God's love transcends all boundaries of culture, religion, and nationality."

"The most dangerous person is one who has lost all hope and all fear."

"We are called to be ambassadors of reconciliation in a world divided by hatred."

"The seeds of change are planted by ordinary people doing extraordinary things."

"We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are ways to live other than cutthroat competitiveness."

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

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

"Hope is being able to maintain faith in the future even when you are aware of how terrible things are in the present."

"Without forgiveness, there is no future. The prisoner is held captive by his own hatred."

"Each of us must discover our own vocation, but all vocations point toward serving humanity."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, but so too is the price of community."

"You cannot negotiate with a force of nature. You cannot reason with the wind. But you can learn to move with it."

"When you see injustice, the onus is on you to do something about it. You cannot remain neutral."

"Our children are not going to be just 'our children'—they are going to be the citizens of the world."

"I would not be who I am if it were not for the remarkable women in my life."

"God says to you that you matter. Your life has value and purpose."

"True leadership is not about being in front. It is about enabling others to do what they do best."

"We cannot all succeed when some are deliberately held back."

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

"To forgive is not to say the deed was acceptable. Rather, it is to refuse to let that deed define your future."

"Ubuntu speaks to the very essence of being human. A person is a person through other persons."

"Despair is the only sin. To despair is to say that God has abandoned us, which is never true."

"We are meant to live in community with one another. That is not negotiable."

"Beauty exists to remind us that there is more to life than struggle and pain."

"You do not address the needs of a suffering people by telling them to wait. Justice delayed is justice denied."

"Education is the most powerful tool for changing the world."

"Once a person has experienced the love of God, they cannot help but share it with others."

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned in order to embrace the life that is waiting for us."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."