Desmond Tutu Quotes

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Race must never be a partisan issue.

At the end of the day, if you're not against racism, you're racist.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be told anymore. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

No man’s fundamental rights should depend on the colour of his skin.

Negro members shall be treated as white members

Our leader will not be a white man with a Black heart, nor a Black man with a white heart, but a Black man with a Black heart.

Forget our special grievances and close ranks shoulder to shoulder with our white fellow-citizens.

Race has no place in American life or law.

The price of the liberation of the whites is the liberation of the Blacks.

You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.

Racist means thinking more highly of another, being superior to another. I don't feel better or superior - white, black, yellow, all the same.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons as evil, if he fails to look beyond his circumstances. But the minute he looks beyond his circumstances and sees the whole of the situation, he discovers that some of the most implacable and vehement advocates of racial equality are consecrated white persons.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.