Mpho Tutu van Furth

"Before transformation there must be the belief that transformation is possible, and the willingness to be transformed."

"To me, authentic leadership is leadership from the heart; from the center: that one recognizes the core of one’s being and leads from that space."

"forgiveness is the biggest help to transition away from the stereotypical patriarchal model that both women and men suffer under."

"If you conceptualize leadership as power over people, Ubuntu doesn’t have a place in that conceptualization. If you conceptualize leadership as power with people, it completely changes the way you operate, even as a leader."

"Privilege is there is almost nothing about you that I have to know, and yet you know so much about me."

"Forgiveness is not easy; it can seem like an impossible task. According to Mpho, only through walking this fourfold path, we free ourselves from the endless cycle of pain and retribution."

"we have to search our souls in order to find our own truth, to understand when we have been responsible for perpetuating inequality whether explicitly or complicitly. It is a painful process, but only then can we address it."

"For girls to flourish our world must be safe, our environment clean, our planet healthy"

"When girls flourish the whole world flourishes."

"For girls to flourish their voices must be heard, their choices honoured, and their right to bodily integrity affirmed."

"I am working to create a world that is good for girls."

"like every LGBTQIA+ child who has come out of the closet only to be thrown out of the house, I feel bereft. The South African church that was the mother of my faith has disowned me."