that this award is made today, december 10th, human rights day. it says more eloquently than anything else that this is god s world and he is in charge.d that our cause is a just cause. that we will attain human rights in south africa and everywhere in the world. we shall be free in south africa and everywhere in the world. born in 1931 to a poor famila tutu joined the ministry as a way to serve his community and rose to the highest ranks becoming the first black to archbishop of cape town and used his pulpit to speak out against injustice. in announcing his death the south african president held th archbishop as, quote, a patriot without equal, a leader of principle and prague mattism wha gave meaning to the bubble call insight that faith without works is dead. the former ambassador to south .