Desmond Tutu by Noah Akinnuoye https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons Made for a magical man en-us 2020-02-26 15:42:58 UTC 2025-12-23 21:25:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1ff-1f1e6.png Klerksdorp Hospital, Neserhof, Klerksdorp, South Africa 540643 https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/450820734 1931 - Desmond Tutu is born]]> 2020-02-26 15:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/450820734 St. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, South Africa 540643 https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/450992601 1961 - Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister]]> 2020-02-26 19:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/450992601 St. Mary's Cathedral, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, South Africa 540643 https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/451001152 1981 - Speech - "Fortieth Anniversary of the Republic?"]]> 2020-02-26 19:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/451001152 Oslo, Norway 540643 https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/451013656 1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to nonviolently put an end to South African apartheid.]]> 2020-02-26 19:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/451013656 New York Times Building, 242 W 41st St, NY, 10036, USA 540643 https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/451017791 1985 -Jan 3 - Quote - "For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is recognise that we are humans too." - New York Times.]]> 2020-02-26 20:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/451017791 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112, USA 540643 https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/451139673 1985 - 9 January - Quote - "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 human rights"
Today, NBC]]> 2020-02-27 01:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/451139673 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF, UK 540643 https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/451155313  1986 - 8 June, "We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death." - Sunday Times Magazine UK
Desmond Tutu is ordained the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town.
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Desmond Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town.
8 June, "There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew." from "Recovering from Apartheid", in The New Yorker.
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2010 - Retires from public life ]]> 2020-02-28 15:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/540643/desmond_tutu_lifeloveandlessons/wish/452043402