Desmond TutuThinkers

Colonization works like this: when the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we [Africans] had the land. They said, "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.

God is not a Christian.

History is like beauty in that it, too, depends largely on the beholder.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Neutrality is never neutral. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

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