Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language… It is to say, “My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.” A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has 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. (Archbishop Desmond Tutu)