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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#beings #bought #branded #burden #discrimination

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#child #education #every #give #moral

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apartheid #been #conditions #experienced #housing

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#every #extraordinary #hope #human #human life

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#before #celebrated #counts #existed #family

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#i #i wish #shut #shut up #up

And every human being is precious. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#every #human #human being #precious

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #christian #different #different faiths #faiths

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#black #elite #empowerment #majority #recycled

I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#between #british #community #crisis #forward