Desmond Tutu Quotes

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across these experiences.

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

We are all alike, on the inside.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

We are all human beings. We all have the same blood in our veins.

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

Nothing happens to you that has not happened to someone else.

I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

People everywhere are the same; they are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love.

What I've learned is that at the end of the day, we are all human. We all have that in common.

As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all.