Ocupation: Activist
Life: b. October 7, 1931
Birthday: October 7
Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.
source: Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.
topic: Children, Real, Educational, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty, Causes Of Poverty, World Poverty, Root Cause, Global Poverty, Arms Race