Life --- it seems is for questioning --- for reexamining, rethinking, reviewing, revitalizing, reinventing. Each of these actions require something of us. We have to want something different than we experience and observe than we do today. We have to have deep passions in our belly and a sincere willingness to make the personal investments to live up to our convictions.
Nelson Mandela has lived his life showing us a clear example of one living his life in this way. He teaches us by his example what it means to stay true to your convictions:
"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against White domination, and I have fought against Black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
--- Nelson Mandela
Final page of Mandela's statement at the Rivonia Trial - April 1964
Imagine what all of us could do together if each of us lived our lives with conviction --- if each of us answered life's questions with our conviction to make the world a better place for others. It starts by measuring our behavior, by consciously checking buying decisions, speaking UP!, exercising our VOTE to elect leaders with VISION that unite us as one human family. Hold that vision!
Debbe Kennedy
Founder, Global Dialogue Center
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