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
people favors speak
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
law fundamentals collaboration
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
israel racism looks
Is Zionism racism? I would say yes. It's a policy that to me looks like it has very many parallels with racism. The effect is the same. Whether you call it that or not is in a sense irrelevant.
love alive generations
If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
compassion world goodness
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
moving future vision
We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)
thinking oasis sea
Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made up of drops of water and each drop counts, each one of us can do our little bit where we are. Those little bits can come together and almost overwhelm the world. Each one of us can be an oasis of peace.
mean ubuntu empathy
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.
mean reverence-for-life death-penalty
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
religious believe people
Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the world, then they must participate in political affairs because they are alive. And if they don't act neither as the leaven or the salt or the light, then things can go horribly badly wrong.
caring essence ubuntu
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, 'My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.' We belong in a bundle of life.
mean forgiving coins
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.
sides oppressors oppressed
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.
dignity moments humiliated
The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.