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
sorry mean heaven
I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.
children giving moral
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
maturity care agree-to-disagree
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
water people black
People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.
love-is sides conflict
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
inspiring god freedom
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
destiny common-humanity oneness
If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.
jesus book christ
The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.
dance war evil
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
thinking order people
A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
brother law humanity
To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
slavery argument justification
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
cutting knives religion
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
inspirational motivational suicide
Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.