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Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on the Power of Freedom

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Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa chaired the TRC. In this video clip on the 1994 elections from A Force More Powerful: South Africa, Freedom in Our Lifetime, Tutu talks about the power of freedom.

Transcript: 

NARRATOR: They have never in their lives voted, nor have their parents or their grandparents before them.

TUTU: The struggle against Apartheid, against the racism in South Africa, it fundamentally had been non-violent. We were inspired by what had happened in India, in Poland, in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, what was happening in the Philippines.

I suppose that human beings looking at it would say that arms are the most dangerous things that a dictator, a tyrant needs to fear, but in fact, no. It is when people decide they want to be free. Once they have made up that, their minds to that, there is nothing that would stop them.

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on Responsibility
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on Injustice
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on the Perpetrators of Apartheid
Video length: 
2 min 22 sec
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