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
rights challenges earth
The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.
christian thinking giving
I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.
share humans
I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.
devastation landmines immoral
The devastation wreaked by landmines is not only horrendous but immoral
love-is upset trying
We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.
roots history people
One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.
knows
God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
optimist prisoner
I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope.
competition looks poverty
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
rights race different
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
our-words lost-trust lost
Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.
trustworthy interest humans
Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
christian caring people
There are very good Christians who are compassionate and caring. And there are very bad Christians. You can say that about Islam, about Hinduism, about any faith. That is why I was saying that it was not the faith per se but the adherent. People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.
christian notion persons
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.