Desmond Tutu
South African Anglican archbishop (1931 to 2021) and opponent of apartheid; Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Their wordsWhen will we learn that human beings are of infinite value because they have been created in the image of God, and that it is a blasphemy to treat them as if they were less than this and to do so ultimately recoils on those who do this?
↗Nobel Lecture, Oslo (11 December 1984)nobelprize.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIn dehumanizing others, they are themselves dehumanized. Perhaps oppression dehumanizes the oppressor as much as, if not more than, the oppressed. They need each other to become truly free, to become human. We can be human only in fellowship, in community, in koinonia, in peace.
↗Nobel Lecture, Oslo (11 December 1984)nobelprize.org 2nd of 2 in this piece