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
peace justice impossibility
Peace without justice is an impossibility.
persons
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
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If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
black empowerment benefits
What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
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Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]
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When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
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There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.
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We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
humans human-beings
And every human being is precious.
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Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.
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I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.
long together persons
We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.