When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
—Desmond Tutu
Topics: Perseverance
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
—Desmond Tutu
Topics: Leaders, Leadership
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
—Desmond Tutu
Topics: Racism
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
—Desmond Tutu
Topics: God, Family
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
—Desmond Tutu
Topics: Goodness, Kindness
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
—Desmond Tutu
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