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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Tutu challenges graduates to partner with God

When God sees injustice and oppression in the world, he does not send lightning bolts to strike down the perpetrators, Archbishop Desmond Tutu told more than 1,900 graduates during his commencement address at William and Mary Hall on May 14. Instead, God usually sends out young people to address the wrongs, Tutu said.

Tutu, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for leading the nonviolent movement against apartheid in South Africa, explained, “When God sees someone hungry, he wants to feed that person, but God doesn’t do that by hamburgers floating down from heaven.” If hungry people are to be fed and if naked people are to be clothed, it is because human beings have agreed to work with God, Tutu said.

He charged the graduates to work toward the “more gentle world” that is the hope of God, a world in which children grow up playing together rather than becoming child soldiers, or sex slaves or exploited laborers, in which women are respected as equals, in which people are not discriminated against because of the “biological irrelevance” of race, in which war becomes unknown and in which gays and lesbians are not treated as if they are half human.

During his speech, Tutu alluded to a recently published report indicated that students at the College donated more than 300,000 hours of service to the local community. “God is rubbing both hands together in appreciation,” he said. He applauded young people in the United States who in the past spoke out against the war in Vietnam and who helped change the moral climate against the injustice of apartheid in his homeland of South Africa.

“God is asking, ‘Help me realize my dream, that one day my children will wake up and realize they are members of one family,’” Tutu said. “You can be human only together. You can be prosperous only together. You can be safe and secure only together,” he said.

During the ceremony, Tutu was presented with an honorary doctorate of public service. Among the graduates were 1,270 individuals who had earned bachelor's degrees and approximately 770 who had earned advanced degrees.

Author: David Williard, Source: W&M News
Date: May 14, 2006

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