I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.
Category Archive: Desmond Tutu
It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.