Inspirational Quotes by Desmond Tutu (South African Clergyman)

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (b.1931) is a South African Anglican archbishop. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for promoting non-violent opposition to apartheid.

Born in Klerksdorp in the Province of the Transvaal, Tutu is the son of a primary school headmaster. He was educated at mission schools and training college before becoming a school teacher in 1954. After his ordination in 1960, he studied theology at King’s College, London, and lectured on the subject in South Africa. He became an Anglican parish priest in 1961 and rose rapidly to become Bishop of Lesotho 1976–78.

Tutu served as general secretary of the South African Council of Churches 1979–84, and, during this time, became South Africa’s most prominent opponent of apartheid, that country’s institution of racial discrimination. He recurrently risked imprisonment for his advocacy of punitive international sanctions against South Africa.

After receiving the Nobel Prize, Tutu became Johannesburg’s first black Anglican bishop in 1985 and was archbishop of Cape Town 1986–96, when he retired. He also chaired South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (created to hear testimony on the apartheid era) 1995–99.

Tutu has published several collections of sermons, lectures, and speeches, including Crying in the Wilderness (1982,) Hope and Suffering (1983,) and The Rainbow People of God (1994.)

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