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
taken sides status-quo
To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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My vote is my secret.
kindness good-people littles
Do your little bit of good where you are.
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Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.
purpose life-is heartbeat
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
dust evil apartheid
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.
universe
The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
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I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
hate leader guy
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
evil atrocities capacity
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
europe rich knows
Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.