Desmond Tutu
We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.Collection: Addiction
Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.Collection: Justice
No peace is impossible when people are determined to achieve itCollection: People
In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."Collection: Sorry
When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.Collection: Pain
It may seem daunting, but I am a prisoner of hope. We are more connected than ever before, we have more knowledge, and there are solutions if we work together. Today's technology is a great asset in encouraging global cooperation and understanding.Collection: Technology
Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says there are no outsiders - black, white, yellow, short, tall, young, old, rich, poor, gay, lesbian, straight - everyone. All belong. And God says, I have only you to help me realize my dream. Help me.Collection: Dream
I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people. We can be human only together.Collection: Country
If we are to say that religion cannot be concerned with politics then we are really saying that there is a substantial part of human life in which God's writ does not run. If it is not God's, then whose is it? Who is in charge if not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.Collection: Running
I've often been a little concerned by people who say they are color-blind, people who claim, in some ways, not to be aware of race, and I hope that those who will be looking for a vision of the future will be a little more honest, and say race actually does matter.Collection: Race
There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.Collection: Care
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .Collection: Thinking
God is not a diversion.Collection: Diversion
It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had ready-made scapegoats to take the blame when things were going wrong.Collection: Country
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.Collection: Children
... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life ... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless.Collection: Jobs
It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.Collection: Religious
God says, "Please, please help me realize this dream." And some of God's best collaborators are the young, because you dream. You dream God's dream.Collection: Dream
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.'Collection: Honesty
Dream! Dream! And then go for it!Collection: Dream
I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.Collection: Believe
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.Collection: Speaks Out
Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.Collection: Children
Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.Collection: Justice
We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.Collection: Justice
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.Collection: Peace
God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.Collection: Love Is
God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.Collection: Compassion
It makes no sense to invest in fossil fuel companies that undermine our future.Collection: Future