Desmond Tutu Quotes about Compassion

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Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness,

Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Desmond Tutu

Believe, Mean, Compassion

Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Desmond Tutu

Compassion, Empathy, Soul

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Desmond Tutu

Compassion, World, Goodness

Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action.

Desmond Tutu

Thinking, Compassion, People

"Desmond Tutu on Compassion". Interview with Marc Ian Barasch, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2005.

Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.

Desmond Tutu

Children, Growing Up, Compassion

Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.86, Random House

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

Desmond Tutu

Hate, Compassion, Race

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.

Desmond Tutu

Compassion, Rights, Tables

1985 NBC News, 9 Jan.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Desmond Tutu

Family, Dream, Compassion

I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time. . . I have also seen incredible forgiveness and compassion. Yes, each of us has the capacity for great evil. But for every act of evil there are a dozen acts of goodness in our world that go unnoticed. It is only because we believe that people should be good that we despair when they are not. Indeed, if people condoned the evil, we would be justified in losing hope. But most of the world does not. We know that we are meant for better.

Desmond Tutu

Believe, Compassion, Our World

You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.

Desmond Tutu

Spiritual, Caring, Compassion

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Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

Desmond Tutu

Hate, Compassion, Deeds