I used to be “Mister Disinvestment.” Now I would like to be Mister Investment and say, “Come! Come and be part of an exciting, exhilarating process. Come in! Come in on the ground floor and see a people do something that’s probably never happened before, people seeking to become something radically different from what their antecedents would have made us believe they were likely to become.
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Desmond Tutu
Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
South Africa · 1931–2021
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South African Anglican cleric who became General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and then Archbishop of Cape Town, and who was a leading non-violent opponent of apartheid. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 and chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995.
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