I thought to myself, would I be the only one in this room who would disagree with a launch decision? I asked myself in my mind, do I have the courage to say that?
You then have to ask yourself, well, what am I going to do about it? And if I don't do anything, then what does that say about me? What does that say about who I am and my character? If I know these things are wrong, I know people are being killed and I do nothing.
Nothing that happens after the question is your responsibility. Your responsibility is have the curiosity, the integrity, the thoughtfulness, and the humility to ask what's on your mind and not bite your tongue because well, it might be uncomfortable. Well, what are they going to say? Let that be their problem.
I guess I kind of just feel like if you only engage in an action that you're certain is going to be successful, that's pretty cowardly, really. You know, I mean, we want to be strategic and effective as activists, but there's no guarantee in any of this stuff. And that doesn't mean it's not still a worthwhile way to spend your life.
On the Declaration of Independence, she puts her name as Mary Katherine Goddard. She wanted to be remembered. She wanted to be part of this founding document and as you point out, it was dangerous and treasonous to put your name on that document.
The moment you know the truth and you don't say it, you've broken something inside yourself. And I think the accumulation of that over time is what leads to people who are fundamentally not effective leaders, because they've taught themselves to look away from hard things.
If you allow yourself to live a life where you can take these bold, unique choices and build on top of them, you can move away from doing things that are different into doing things that are wonderful.
a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew
Hannah Senesh, a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew.
a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew.
If you think that you will immediately be cut down in your society, you don't actually go out and hunt. You actually don't go out and bring back the the the big deer or whatever you're hunting the bacon. You don't bring home the bacon in the first place. You don't even try because you're so worried about this tall poppy syndrome in your society.
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