Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
Interpretation
True manhood is demonstrated by respect and kindness towards women.
Desmond Tutu emphasizes that the measure of a man's character is reflected in how he treats the women in his life, including wives, sisters, and mothers. This perspective highlights the importance of respect and kindness as essential qualities of manhood, suggesting that a man's dignity comes not only from strength but also from compassion and consideration for others.
In practice
In a speech advocating gender equality, one might say, 'As Desmond Tutu wisely noted, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women.'
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.
Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.
Empathy isnβt just something that happens to us β a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain β itβs also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.
..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.
I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.
The relationship that tests/frustrates/irritates you the most actually is one of your greatest blessings. Why? Because it reveals to you the very beliefs/fears and false assumptions that most limit you.
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