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
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Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
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Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
life people wonderful
Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.
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Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity
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Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
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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.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
life friendship peace
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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We in Africa wonder: Can the world outside see the human beings -- or the potential partners -- behind the unrelenting despair?
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The World Cup will be more than just a football tournament
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Sometimes people think (that) to see that we are family is to be sentimental. But one has to say: This is one of the most radical things, actually. When we do what we think is charitable, it isn't anything more than our obligation as family members.
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Full houses at the Assembly Rooms. To keep Michele sweet. That's basically it.
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We have frequently gone into denial when faced with unpleasant, unpalatable facts and now we are hearing from governments in Africa that they are not going into denial but that they are facing up to a horrendous situation forthwith,
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.