One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them.
Desmond TutuOne of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
Desmond TutuGod wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
Desmond TutuIt's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't.
Desmond Tutu