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By Alistair Boddy-Evans, About.com Guide to African History since 2001

Tutu's Nobel Prize Speech

Monday March 26, 2007
Desmond Tutu is known as an erudite man who's a passionate speech maker. His acceptance speech in 1984 when he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize was no exception. In it Tutu declared: "I come from a beautiful land, richly endowed by God with wonderful natural resources, wide expanses, rolling mountains, singing, birds, bright shining stars out of blue skies, with radiant sunshine, gold sunshine. There is enough of the good things that come from God's bounty, there is enough for everyone, but apartheid has confirmed some in their selfishness, causing them to grasp readily a disproportionate share, the lion's share, because of their power." Read Desmond Tutu's full acceptance speech...

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