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
matter return fundamentals
We must return to the fundamentals; the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count; you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.
people leader world
The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
christian notion persons
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.
men sick able
Trust is one of the fundamentals of human existence. We need to be able to trust one another. A man who can no longer trust anyone will become sick.
trustworthy interest humans
Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.
our-words lost-trust lost
Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.
trying bulls red
I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.
forgiving would-be mercy
If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.
giving long people
We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.
violence knows
I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.
people able cruelty
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.
competition looks poverty
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.
thinking self needs
I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny.
mean faults christ
Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn't mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.