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
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There will be no future without forgiveness. Any process of peace is bound to collapse if this is missing. There is no way peace and stability can come through the gun of vengeance.
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A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.
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Love is much more demanding than law.
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A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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It always comes back to our insecurities, as we say, "Oh, I'm not as good as you." So instead of accepting that perhaps I am not as good as someone else in some ways and being comfortable with who I am as I am, I spend all my time denigrating you, trying to cut you down to my self-perceived size. The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours.
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Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
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It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
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The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
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Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.
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If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.
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We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.