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
nursing past people
True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing grudges even vicariously for those who cannot speak for themselves any longer. We have to accept that we do what we do for generations past, present and yet to come. That is what makes a community a community or a people a people-for better or for worse.
worship hell homophobic
I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.
laughter caring thinking
I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.
taken sides status-quo
To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
kindness good-people littles
Do your little bit of good where you are.
forgiveness way pretending
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.
universe
The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
europe rich knows
Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
memorial-day peace freedom
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
diversion
God is not a diversion.
waking pretending difficult
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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.
ubuntu peaceful world
Ubuntu tells us that we can create a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.
loss forgiving predator
To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.