I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.

Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.