Quote by Desmond Tutu: “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

Hope isn't pretending that everything is fine — it's choosing to believe that light still exists even when you're surrounded by darkness. It takes more honesty and courage to hope in hard times than to despair. Hope and clear-eyed realism can coexist.

Tutu continued to speak widely in the early 2000s, a decade after South Africa's democratic transition, as the country faced new challenges including the HIV/AIDS crisis, which killed hundreds of thousands of South Africans annually. The global war on terror had begun following the September 2001 attacks, creating an atmosphere of fear and moral uncertainty.

South African Anglican bishop and theologian who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission following the end of apartheid. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his nonviolent opposition to apartheid, and was known internationally for his theology of Ubuntu and his advocacy for human rights.