Ubuntu

A term of Bantu origin that, aside from sounding beautiful, represents a philosophy of human kindness. Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu defines it as, “I am because we are.” He says: “A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, based from a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”