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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Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
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If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
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All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
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And every human being is precious.
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If I diminish you, I diminish myself
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A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.