Desmond Tutu

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

Love is much more demanding than law.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present.

Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.