"I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of…" — Desmond Tutu

"I'm not an optimist; I'm a prisoner of hope."

— 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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More Hope Quotes

This quote is filed under Hope Quotes, one of 13,380 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving… — Arthur Ashe
Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can… — Julian Assange
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason… — David Attenborough
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say… — David Attenborough
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to… — David Attenborough
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race -… — Margaret Atwood

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