{"id":49954,"date":"2021-12-27T01:35:06","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T01:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49954"},"modified":"2021-12-27T01:35:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T01:35:30","slug":"49954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49954","title":{"rendered":"Tutu’s legacy towers over world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cDo your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2015 Desmond Tutu<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The great man did many “little bits of good” that indeed overwhelmed the world. Desmond Tutu died today at age 90.<\/p>\n

He was arguably the world’s pre-eminent foe of the oppressive regime that kept most of South Africa’s population in a form of bondage. He fought to free the nation’s black majority of the apartheid philosophy that had governed that country since its founding.<\/p>\n

He was an Anglican priest who embodied the kind of peaceful resistance that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made famous in this country.<\/p>\n

The great man retired from public life in 2010, but his legacy as a champion for freedom for most of those who lived in South Africa was well-established. He stood alongside the great Nelson Mandela to lead his country out of its oppression to a new era of enlightenment and freedom.<\/p>\n

Desmond Tutu did not need to do one great thing to “overwhelm the world.” He lived by the thought he expressed. He was a champion.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.\u201d \u2015 Desmond Tutu The great man did many “little bits of good” that indeed overwhelmed the world. Desmond Tutu died today at age 90. He was arguably the world’s pre-eminent foe of the oppressive … Continue reading Tutu’s legacy towers over world<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[418,9828,3251],"class_list":["post-49954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-apartheid","tag-desmond-tutu","tag-nelson-mandela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49957,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49954\/revisions\/49957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}