Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel peace prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBTIQ+ rights, passed away at the age of 90. Photo: Themba Hadebe/APJustice John Paul Stevens wrote: “Death is not life’s simple opposite, or its necessary terminus, but rather its completion.”
Tutu, an austere man of unquestioned moral rectitude, heeded Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s calls that “our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter,” and that “a time comes when silence is betrayal”. And so it is with Archbishop Tutu. A line from the great Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish, perhaps best summarises both Tutu’s life and his legacy: “What use is our thought if not for humanity” .
Tutu used his life to the utmost. So, let us sing, not a dirge, but a paean, knowing that our unwelcome tears are not for Tutu, but for ourselves. He was a courageous man whose voice would bellow against injustice, and inequality, prejudice and pretension, greed and the abuse of political office, and who fought with courage of the lion-hearted. Tutu was an honest straightforward man.From his prison cell, before he would be killed by the Nazi government, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian and leader of an underground seminary, wrote the following words about the future of his country: “What we shall need is not geniuses...or cynics...
Dr Martin Luther King Jr once said: “Cowardice will ask, is it safe? Vanity will ask, is it popular? But conscience, God consciousness asks, is it right?” Maya Angelou’s poem – When the Great Trees Fall – helps us to show how much Tutu’s life’s legacy will reverberate. “We can be. Be and be better because Archbishop Tutu existed.”
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