Dear Signatories,

Peace/Human Rights Activists can learn important lessons from Desmond Tutu - South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon – who passed away on 26 Dec. 2021 at 90.

Like fellow Nobel-laureate Nelson Mandela, he worked non-violently, passionately, tirelessly to tear down apartheid – South Africa’s brutal decades-long regime of oppression against its Black majority that only ended in 1994. Nicknamed, ‘The Arch’, Tutu was committed to building a better, more equal South Africa. He was also a modern-day activist for racial justice & LGBTQIA rights. Asked once how he wanted to be remembered, Tutu had said:

    “He loved. He laughed. He cried. He was forgiven. He forgave. Greatly privileged.”

Some of Desmond Tutu’s Memorable Quotes.

*  “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.”

*  “We need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream;  

   find out why they’re falling in.”

*  “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

*  “Without forgiveness, there’s no future.”

*  “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together    

  that overwhelm the world.”

*  "I wish I could shut up, but I can’t and I won’t!"

Tutu celebrated Africa’s multi-racial society calling it a “rainbow nation” – a phrase widely used today as a euphemism for an inclusive and tolerant society & very much in sync with CFN Mission stated above. Possibly an apt New Year Resolution for 2022 - is for humankind to follow in his footsteps & and work to create a ‘rainbow world’, by using our present vast resources of communication - especially social media, to move to a WORLD BEYOND WAR.  There could be no greater tribute than this for, ‘People’s Archbishop’ – as Mandela called Desmond Tutu!

As we enter 2022, let me conclude with an apt quote by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Desmond Tutu was one of them

"TIME changes people, but there are people who change the TIME.  May you be one of them!"

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