Finally, Tutu’s insight invites practical application in contemporary life. Individuals and communities can nurture active hope by pairing every aspiration with a next step—attending a meeting, mentoring a child, joining a coalition, or simply walking across a dividing line to meet a neighbor. As these small movements accumulate, they create new patterns of trust and responsibility. In this way, hope graduates from wishful thinking into a disciplined way of walking in the world, carrying with it the quiet but profound capacity to change cities. [...]
