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
exercise thinking wanted
I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"
want might failing
One of the things we might want to learn when considering the failings of others is not to gloat because someone else has tripped up.
justice evil want
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
speaks-out suffering want
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
ears want sometimes
Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'
others-happiness recipes want
Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others." "happiness is when I see others happy. Happiness is a shared thing. I feel very diminished happiness if it is something I enjoy myself.
girl commitment want
I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.
people want
When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
want oppressors oppressed
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.
children want patient
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
alive loved man mother people warm
I said yes, and Tutu said, 'He's not very articulate,' which he isn't. He said, 'Is he the most loved man in the world?' I said yes. 'Who is the most loved woman?' Mother Teresa was still alive at the time, so I said her. He replied, 'Yes, and what are these people? These people are good. And why do we love them? Because they warm us. They warm us.'
bad-day pride hands
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
believe home evil
I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me that there is an integral relationship between faith and life at home. Evil is evil, repression is repression anywhere. And if it is not consistent with what one believes is God's will, then I would hope that one would be able to witness it, and there are wonderful people who do so in very great risks to themselves.
memories past people
I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.