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
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We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.
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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.
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An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.
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I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
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We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.
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Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.
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Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.
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Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.
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As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.
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Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
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Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
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I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.
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People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
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The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.