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 TutuIf everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
Desmond TutuWe are going to have to be very careful that we give people the hope that freedom is actually better than unfreedom.
Desmond TutuWhen will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of our being at our peril.
Desmond TutuWe 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.'
Desmond Tutu