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
memorial-day peace freedom
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
xenophobia racism slavery
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
thinking evil people
When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.
being-alone acceptance ready
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
forgiving
To forgive is not just to be altruistic.
smart winter fire
Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.
diversion
God is not a diversion.
waking pretending difficult
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
sorry children suffering
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
land umpires white
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
white racism people
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
wish shut-up i-can
I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
ubuntu peaceful world
Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
justice rainbow people
And you remember the rainbow in the Bible is the sign of peace. The rainbow is the sign of prosperity. We want peace, prosperity and justice and we can have it when all the people of God, the rainbow people of God, work together.