Extra   author: Desmond Tutu

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Desmond Tutu

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 rights.

Desmond Tutu

It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.

Desmond Tutu

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

Desmond Tutu

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

Desmond Tutu

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Desmond Tutu