Desmond Tutu

Person · Open Library

Works

12

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

South Africa

Active from

1931-10-07

Active to

2021-12-26

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

169

Total plays

1,500

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He was the first black South African Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). Tutu's admirers see him as a man who since the demise of apartheid has been active in the defence of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Desmond+Tutu">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

   · 1994 · cited 52,078x

2. Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

   · 2011 · cited 14,484x

3. T-coffee: a novel method for fast and accurate multiple sequence alignment 1 1Edited by J. Thornton

   · 2000 · cited 5,977x

4. Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire

   · 2003 · cited 5,440x

5. Endovascular Therapy for Ischemic Stroke with Perfusion-Imaging Selection

   · 2015 · cited 5,127x

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Quotes

• “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
• “I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute — a white skin.”
• “Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.”
• “I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.”
• “History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.”
• “Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.”

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🏅Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Peace Prize1984

  “for his role as a unifying leader figure in the non-violent campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa”