Desmond Tutu Quotes
Our struggle is going to succeed but not because of numbers. Our struggle is going to succeed because it is a just struggle.
Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa, Nobel Peace Laureate, Chairman, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Speech to ANC followers in the midst of the struggle against apartheid
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For a later variation of this idea see Stanislaw Lec {608869}. Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault
The power structure of England and the English administrators of South Africa were strong advocates of racial equality at the beginning of the 19th century. They insisted on equal administration of law. However the Boer white population could think of nothing more absurd. In a sense the Boers were much like the Southern Whites at the same time. The South African government however could not enforce its equality policies in the rural area – the majority of South Africa at the time. When democracy and self rule came to South Africa, the racially moderating force of the English was minimized and the majority of South Africans wanted a racially segregated society. Apartheid resulted.
The original was in Latin and is sometimes translated as "Let justice be done though the Heavens fall." The statement appears on several courthouses throughout the U. S.
See François de La Rochefoucauld for a later version of this sentiment. Quintus Horatius Flaccus
For an earlier variant see Robert Green Ingersoll: {288250}.
Desmond Mpilo Tutu OMSG CH GCStJ is a South African Anglican cleric and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was the Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then the Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from black theology with African theology.
