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
believe what-matters done
In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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.
waking pretending difficult
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
peace heaven needs
We have an extraordinary God. God is a mighty God, but this God needs you. When someone is hungry, bread doesn't come down from heaven. When God wants to feed the hungry, you and I must feed the hungry. And now God wants peace in the world.
sorry children suffering
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
inspirational graduation beautiful
And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be-eagles, not chickens.
stars men sky
Where we come from does not determine who we can become. What we look like places no limits on what we can achieve. We should all have the right to express ourselves, all have the right to be heard, all have the right to be what we can be: To reach for the sky and touch the stars. No matter who we are, no matter whether we are man or woman, or rich or poor: My voice, my right. My voice counts.
tables cups crash
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
keys community problem
Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.
knows
God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'
men sake goodness
If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, ‘power to the women.
country people splits
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
wish shut-up i-can
I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
memorial-day peace freedom
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.