Post Tagged with: "Desmond Tutu"

How can one remain silent?

How can one remain silent?

by Ra’ana Dilruba Yasmin and Robert H. Stiver “I have never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.”   ~Desmond Tutu, 2007 Along with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Nelson Mandela ‘Madiba,’ and Martin Luther King, Jr., the world has lost one of the greatest souls of the last two centuries or[Read More…]

by — 14/02/2022 — 1 comment — World
In South Africa as in Palestine: Why We Must Protect the Legacy of Desmond Tutu

In South Africa as in Palestine: Why We Must Protect the Legacy of Desmond Tutu

Long before intersectionality became a prevailing concept which helped delineate the relationship between various marginalized and oppressed groups, late South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu said it all in a few words and in a most inimitable style. “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together,” he said. Like other freedom and justice icons, Tutu[Read More…]

by — 18/01/2022 — Comments are Disabled — Life/Philosophy
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 Zionist-subverted West Ignores Desmond Tutu’s Opposition To Israeli Apartheid

The world has been universally paying homage to Nobel laureate and world hero Desmond Tutu (7 October 1931- 26 December 2021) for his opposition to  apartheid through non-violent boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS), and his involvement in truth and reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa. However a mendacious, hypocritical, Zionist-subverted, pro-Apartheid Israel and hence pro-apartheid West ignores Tutu’s resolute opposition to[Read More…]

by — 02/01/2022 — Comments are Disabled — World
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Reminiscing Bishop Desmond Tutu – A Postscript on the Apostle of Peace

Golden names like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Desmond Tutu invariably surface on the mental canopy of world public when topics as human rights, liberation struggle, human freedom and the like, especially when those of the oppressed, suppressed, persecuted and downtrodden among coloured and black peoples go afloat. The last of the above noble souls left the[Read More…]

by — 29/12/2021 — Comments are Disabled — Life/Philosophy
Desmond Tutu Opposed Capitalism, Israeli Apartheid and US/UK Imperialism, Too

Desmond Tutu Opposed Capitalism, Israeli Apartheid and US/UK Imperialism, Too

This may sound either arrogant or forgetful, but I could not possibly remember the number of times I was in the same room or at the same protest as Desmond Tutu.  And the main reason I know he was there is because I was there listening to him speak, often from a distance of not more than two meters or[Read More…]

by — 28/12/2021 — Comments are Disabled — Life/Philosophy
Let’s resolve to keep Desmond Tutu’s legacy alive in the light of growing repression across the world

Let’s resolve to keep Desmond Tutu’s legacy alive in the light of growing repression across the world

An era has ended with the passing away of an anti-apartheid hero on Sunday, December 26. Archbishop Desmond Tutu left us at the age of ninety. He was in the forefront of the struggle against brutal white minority rule in South Africa. A Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Tutu was famously known for his quotation; “If you are neutral in situations[Read More…]

by — 27/12/2021 — Comments are Disabled — Life/Philosophy