If you want to really be a leader, you must be a truth-teller. If you want to save the age, the Irish poet Brendan Kennelly writes, Betray it. Expose its conceits, its foibles, its phony moral certitudes. Remember, there will be those among the powerful who try to make you say what you know is clearly not true because if everyone agrees to believe the lie, the lie can go on forever. The lie that there is nothing we can do about discrimination, nothing we can do about world poverty, nothing we can do about fair trade, nothing we can do to end war, nothing we can do to provide education and health care, housing and food, maternity care and just wages for everyone in the world. Nothing we can do about women raped, beaten, trafficked, silenced yet, still, now, everywhere. If you want to be a leader, you, too, must refuse to tell the old lies. You must learn to say that those emperors have no clothes. You must see what you are looking at and say what you see. -Sr Joan Chittiser Stanford University Baccalaureate Address
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:24:28 +0000
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