Best of - Archbishop Desmond Tutu: The Power of Faith

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🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Desmond Tutu was the moral force that helped bring down Apartheid in South Africa. As a young priest, he was not very political, despite the fact that he’d grown up under the most brutal form of segregation. But his theology evolved, he says, and he realized it was a divine calling to fight for justice. Archbishop Tutu died on December 26th, 2021. In his honor, we are replaying this episode from December of 2015. In it, you’ll hear Archbishop Tutu describe his personal, spiritual and political journey -- including the Nobel Peace Prize and chairmanship of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. You’ll also hear his passionate explanation of why humans are essentially good, no matter how often the facts seem to suggest otherwise. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2015-2021

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Alice.
0:05.0	He was a beacon of hope, peace and justice,
0:10.0	reconciliation and forgiveness throughout the world.
0:14.0	But nowhere was Archbishop Desmond Tutu more a beacon than in his own country, South Africa,
0:21.0	a nation built on a scaffold of inhumanity and brutality, that he helped tear down.
0:28.2	Among his tools were his tremendous heart, his radiant smile, his infectious laugh, and his unwavering faith.
0:36.3	He believed human beings are, in his words, made for goodness, despite all the evidence around him to the contrary.
0:44.8	Archbishop Desmond Tutu, or the arch, as he was affectionately known, died Sunday at the age of 90, one day after Christmas.
0:55.0	We want to play for you our episode on Desmond Tutu
0:59.0	that we originally posted during Christmas of 2015.
1:03.6	We hope his words inspire you as you enter the new year.
1:07.7	Thanks for joining us. Adam made this child is gifted and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:18.5	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity and you don't take it, you may never have another job.
1:24.8	It all was so clear.
1:26.3	It was just like the picture started to form itself.
1:29.5	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.
1:37.0	Every day I wake up and decide. Today I'm going to love my life.
1:42.0	Decide. Today I'm going to love my life.
1:42.8	Decide.
1:44.8	My advice is if they don't break your leg once when you go in that place, stay out of there.
1:49.8	And then along come these differential experiences that you don't look for, you don't plan for,
1:56.1	but boy you better not miss them.
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