Desmond Tutu

Was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.

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Was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Without forgiveness, there's no future.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.