Desmond Tutu

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

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

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?