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
bondage
We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free
worship homophobic ifs
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
yield moments lifetime
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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.
share humans
I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.