desmond tutu.n essence, in the bay area, like on larkin street, i want to see people invest more in people. i love the giants stadium, but i want to see cumins investing in a humans, instead of expensive. expensive buildings. i love to see the mayor and governor invest more in education than in incarcerations. so i am committed with the music and the platform that i have, if i have to, to give a little spanking to those who need to break up. we spend way too much on weapons. all the money that we spend on tv advertising, gears of war, that is stupidity. in new zealand, they passed a law that said that you could not sell it. all those games about killing people. they do not want it. to me, i'd equate that with columbine, with war. once you desensitize a human being, you cannot tell the difference between shooting someone in a video game and a real person. some people can bent

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her co-author is the reverend desmond tutu. >> coming up, thomas allen presents a history of tory americans during the american american revolution. self-proclaimed loyalist to the british crown, and he recounts the strongholds of new york and philadelphia. the civil war that took place among the american populace and the migration of 80,000 tories, most of them left for canada. thomas allen presents his book at the library of congress in washington d.c. it's 40 minutes. >> i'm not supposed to have to plug the library of congress, but it's inevitable. a few years ago, i got a call from an historian at the cia, whom i'd met when i've been working on george washington book about intelligence and the revolutionary war. and he says comes the library of congress is something that might be interested, call this number. i thought wow, maybe the cia really does have people who, just like in seven days of people reading books all the time. well, it wasn't quite that. what it happened was the library had got a manuscript that had been written by a tory in connecticut during the revolution, who is und

. >> "made for goodness" well known author desmond tutu, along with mpho tutu. what is the book about? >> i think most of the book is about the essential quality of human beings is that we are good. our essential quality is our goodness. our behavior does not always bear out that essential quality. but it is my belief and my father's belief that our essential quality is goodness, and everybody else is aberration. we relate stories from both of our lives. both of us are clergy and priest and pastors. we've been in all kinds of places and seen all kinds of grief and horror. i have seen the same kinds of grief and horror, but on a more domestic scale in my role as the pastor. so i have a veryc

. >> moe -- mpho tutu is a author, the co-author is reverend desmond tutu. : : >> it is great to be here on national television. [laughter] try not to let the lens get to me. [laughter] >> it's not working. i was actually -- the diagonal glass of water. hhis i you didn't know when you decided to come that he would be part o the national tv studio audienced did you know that?h and you each get $200, am ian right?g c-span is going to cover this for you. had a good time.yo maybe not. you will have to take that up at c-span. it is spectacular to be in queens. in will tell you why.hy i grew up about 3 miles from here in jacksonr heights. i was born in astoria. i am greek and german. i should get this out front. i am greek since my surname metaxas and half german hands mm deep love for siegfried and roy. thank you. but, all greeks have to be bornk in astoria which is part of the whole thing. i was born in astoria but of course they moved to jackson heights is in his we could get out of astoria, but yeah i did grow up in jackson heights so it is a real joy to be here soo close to where i grew u

earlier this week i was honored to receive a letter from archbishop desmond tutu of south africa, urging the house to pass h. 987 and i ask unanimous consent to have this letter entered into the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. mccollum: archbishop tutu's letter said, -- says, and i quote from it, child marriage is a harmful practice that treats young girls as property, stops their education and robs them of their childhood and their dignity. the archbishop goes on to write, thank you for your attention and dedication to passing this bill before congress adjourns. by doing so you may help make the difference in the lives of young girls of opportunity or enslavement, making -- excuse me, by doing so you may help make the difference between the lives of opportunity or enslavement for millions of girls and i end the quote. madam speaker, child marriage is a sanctioned sexual abuse that destroys girls' lives. the choice before this congress is to do nothing as young girls and children continue to be enslaved, raped and condemned to a life of abuse or povert

some of the people we analyzed were obviously mandela, desmond tutu, gandhi, eleanor roosevelt, but. t. washington, alberta schweitzer, the list goes on and on. we only researched heroes that had solved the problems peacefully. no military heroes that killed more enemies than the enemy killed of them. we did it research peaceful military heroes. by the time we were through, we had hundreds of solutions that these different people had performed to resolve their conflict. what we did not expect is when we started putting them into groups. there are only 14. out of all the hundreds and probably thousands of ways to solve a problem peacefully, with magnificent people are at their best. nelson mandela had a bad day. we did not research him then. we researched him at his best. and we were absolutely amazed at what we found. and we try to employ these 14 values and the resolving issues and problems for the people around hiram college. they worked so magnificently, we started studying children heroes. children heroes? let me give you an example. a little boy named ryan. he is 7 years old, in

courage and principle -- in particular, i remember the impact he had on nobel prize winners like desmond tutuers as he gave them a personal tour of the museum. he was, in fact, there appear and colleague. there is nothing -- their peer and colleagues. there is nothing more moving than the award ceremony for the civil rights museum as leaders from all over the world gathered in memphis to pay tribute to mankind's in during impulse for freedom. impulse for freedom. getting to hear my friend ben each year was special. year after year, he reminded us that he was indeed, a drum major for freedom. we honor him today with this celebration of his life. but we honor him tomorrow and in the days ahead by remaining true to his principles and to the fight for human rights that characterized his life. today, he has been allowed to go to the mountain and he is looking over and he has seen the promised land. more than that, he has now entered the promised land. and he has found a place where all of us are judged by the content of our character and not by the color of our skin. as ben so often said, we have

liu was nominated by two nobel peace prize laureates, the 14th dalai lama and bishop desmond tutu and many members of the czech and slow vack parliaments, and a numb of human rights defenders from around the world and also people in the fields of philosophy, literature and finance. h.res. 1717 underscores and points up the words of the norwegian nobel committee said, and i quote, the campaign to establish human rights in china is being waged by many chinese through the severe punishment meeted out to him, -- meted out to him, he's become the symbol for it. it says that in honor noring liu xiaobo they're honoring everybody. his wife said he wept and dedicated the prize to the tiananmen martyrs. the resolution makes it clear that mr. liu is a political prisoner, empa size -- emphasizes that violations of human rights including his persecution are matters of legitimate concern of other governments bauds we are hearing the tired old refrain from the government in beijing that this is purely an internal matter. similarly the resolution calls on the chinese government to cease censoring gov

well-known author, desmond "bonhoeffer" along with his daughter mpho tutu lussier at the national press club alternate. ms. tutu, what is this book about? >> i think most of what this book is about is the essential equality of human beings is that we are good. our essential quality is our goodness. our behavior does not always bear out that essential quality, that it is my belief in my destiny that are essential quality is goodness and everything else is in operation. and we really stories from both our lives, both of us are clergy with the priests and pastors. my father famously shared the truth and reconciliation commission has been in all kinds of ways of grief and horror. i have seen the same times of grief and horror, but on a more domestic scale and my rule is the pastor. so i have a very clear sense of the pain that we can inflict on one another as human beings, but i