Desmond Tutu Quotes

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat.

We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

O black boy of Atlanta! But half was spoken; The slave's chains and the master's Alike are broken; The one curse of the races Held both in tether; They are rising--all are rising-- The black and white together.

There is no future without all of us - black, brown and white - coming together.

There is only one race ... and it is human!

It aint about black or white cause we're human

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

The time has arrived for the cooperation of coloured races with the government, to act unitedly to protect the rights of all coloured races and secure an extension of civil and political liberty to all qualified men irrespective of race, colour or creed throughout the contemplated Union.

There must be no revenge … Our aim is to bring people of all races together. All citizens will by equal in the eyes of the law.

I hope to meet you all in Heaven—Black and white.

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

I still enjoy a lot of support from the black community.

Even people who say that black people are minorities, there are a billion black people in the world. A billion white people. What part of that is a minority? If you separate yourself, then maybe. But I see black people as one man. When I see people beaten on the streets of America, that hurts me. I feel that.

During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought th fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.