Tutu Rocks

In a 1986 sermon about reforming South Africa after apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke, "We Africans speak about a concept difficult to render in English. We speak of ubuntu or botho... it has to do with what it means to be truly human, it refers to gentleness, compassion, hospitality, openness to others, vulnerability, and being available for others, to know that you are bound up with them in the bundle of life; for a person is only a person through other persons. And so we search for this ultimate attribute and reject ethnicity and other qualities as irrelevancies. A person is a person because he recognizes other persons."
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