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Holy Week resources and reflections

30 years ago — January 21, 1985

“New hope has sprung in the breasts of many … the mother watching her child starve in a … resettlement camp, or one whose flimsy plastic covering was demolished by the authorities, … the student receiving an inferior education, the activist languishing in … solitary confinement… being tortured because he thought he was human and wanted that God-given right recognized … .

A new hope has been kindled in the breasts of millions who are voiceless, oppressed, dispossessed, tortured by powerful tyrants, lacking elementary human rights in Latin America, in southeast Asia, the Far East, in many parts of Africa … .

How wonderful, how appropriate, that this award is made today… Human Rights Day. It says more eloquently than anything else thay this is God’s world and that [God] is in charge, that our cause is a just cause and that we will attain human rights in South Africa and everywhere in the world. We shall be free in South Africa and everywhere in the world … . ”

From Desmond Tutu’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Peace found in the Outlook’s article, “New hope kindled.”

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