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
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.
sex thinking psych
People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find that ultimately these things do not satisfy human longings.
memories attitude heart
Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.
idols long performances
I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.
fun ridiculous life-is
Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
thinking organization answers
I certainly don't think we [The Elders organization] are oracles but I would hope that over our lifetimes we have accumulated some useful experience and perhaps even a modicum of wisdom! We don't have all the answers.
rights race different
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.
past trying faces
Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack.
mean thinking people
You tend to think that your time is either the best or the worst, and then when you have a sense of history, you'll realize actually, no, there were times things were quite gusty in the world. I mean, just think, nowadays most people will say they support the advancement of women, woman has been equal, the fact that we're so aware of the gustiness, in a sense, also speaks about the heightening of our own sensitivity.
running space trying
Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
white black speak
The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.
mean people use
Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.
dream children play
Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.
abusive-relationship easy should
An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.