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Desmond Tutu

(1931–2021) Anti-apartheid Activist South Africa

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Desmond Tutu was an anti-apartheid activist from South Africa, best known for The Bang-Bang Club.

Quick Facts About Desmond Tutu

Born: October 7, 1931
Died: December 26, 2021
Nationality: South Africa
Profession: Anti-apartheid Activist
Notable works: The Bang-Bang Club
Spouse: Nomalizo Leah Tutu

About Desmond Tutu

Desmond Mpilo Tutu was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first Black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from Black theology with African theology.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Sydney Peace Prize Order of Jamaica Medal of Honor of the Parliament of Catalonia Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism Archbishop of Canterbury's Award for Outstanding Service to the Anglican Communion Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award Delta Prize for Global Understanding J. William Fulbright Prize

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Order for Meritorious Service honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour Presidential Medal of Freedom Nobel Peace Prize Catalonia International Prize Templeton Prize Monismanien Prize Pacem in Terris Award Osgar Light of Truth Award Gandhi Peace Prize Marion Dönhoff Award Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Jamnalal Bajaj Award Giuseppe Motta Medal Companion of Honour Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Worship James Parks Morton Interfaith Award Golden Plate Award Honorary doctor of the University of Groningen Honorary doctor of the University of Fribourg Humanitarian of the Year honorary doctor of the University of Vienna honorary doctorate of Strasbourg-III University honorary doctor of Toulouse-III University honorary doctor of Harvard University honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge honorary doctorate from Columbia University honorary doctorate of Pompeu Fabra University honorary doctorate of the University of Cape Town René Cassin Prize Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of Saint John honorary doctor of the University of Portland honorary doctor of the University of Tromso honorary doctorate at the University of Washington

Quotes by Desmond Tutu · Page 16

People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people…

Apartheid

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I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to…

Heaven

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If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice…

Attention

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Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying…

Diversity

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People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely…

Cases

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Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for…

Accomplish

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Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Amazing

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True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender,…

Attributes

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If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

Ends

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Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Aa meeting

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We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

Book

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We must return to the fundamentals; the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count; you…

Accepting

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We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

Aberration

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God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into…

Agents

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The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge…

America

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We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.…

Family

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One day we'll wake up and discover we are family.

Family

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I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit…

Apartheid

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To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage…

Block

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Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember…

Anti semitic

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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Being

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There can be no healing without truth.

Healing

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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.

Kindness

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We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the…

Corporations

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Love is universal. You don't have to tell somebody that loving is better than hating. You don't have to believe in God…

Believe

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