"I am a leader by default, only because……" — Desmond Tutu

"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."

— Desmond Tutu

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267 Quotes by Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu has 267 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be…
When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead…
We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments…
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."
Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be…
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the…
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be…
Dream! Dream! And then go for it!
We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about.…

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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in… — Chinua Achebe
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher… — Jane Austen
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they… — Teresa of Avila
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow… — Charles Babbage
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. — Richard Bach
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were… — Afrika Bambaataa
I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things… — Mortimer Adler

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