Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Desmond Tutu, fully Desmond Mpilo Tutu
South African Cleric and Anti-Apartheid Activist, First Black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, South African Civil Rights Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, Anglican Archbishop, Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, Gandhi Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom
"You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders."
"Your president is the pits as far as blacks are concerned. I think the West, for my part, can go to hell."
"Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value."