Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu, CHis a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth7 October 1931
CityKlerksdorp, South Africa
devastation landmines immoral
The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral
jesus giving-up real
Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.
love-is upset trying
We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.
roots history people
One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
knows
God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
keys community problem
Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.
optimist prisoner
I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope.
competition looks poverty
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
rights race different
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
white black speak
The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.
our-words lost-trust lost
Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.
trustworthy interest humans
Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
justice dignity situation
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
christian caring people
There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.