Moral Courage by Rushworth M. Kidder
Author:Rushworth M. Kidder
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Non-fiction
ISBN: 9780061749780
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Published: 2004-12-21T00:00:00+00:00
• “Collective work”
• “Don’t be scared”
• “Always take the responsibility”
• “Money and property is nothing that will make you happy”
Expanding on that last point, he notes that the problem with life in modern Prague is that “we concentrate on the form of things, not the substance of things.” If there were “young people listening,” he tells me with a smile, they need to know that “happiness is not about the most powerful vacuum cleaner.”
What drove Pánek to take his morally courageous stand in the Velvet Revolution, then, was not a complex sequence of analysis. Looking back, he says, “I don’t see any big decision-making process” that was needed in order “to collect my courage.” Nor was it mere impulse. In one sense, of course, he came suddenly to his position as a student leader. In another sense, his character led him to it rather naturally. His background gave him some context for his acts, and the same quietness he attributes to his father seemed evident in his own demeanor. There’s nothing impulsive, either, about the planning he does for his relief work. He told me about the logistical efforts involved in moving thirty thousand displaced Afghans back to their homes during the war against the Taliban, sometimes driving his convoy of trucks down riverbeds to avoid minefields on the nearby roads.
He seems, instead, to trust most readily in his own adventurous spirit and engaging, helpful character. Part of his trust, to be sure, is rooted in experience—his success with the Armenian relief effort, for example, which gave him “that feeling that one can do these things quite easily.” Untroubled by ego, happier in nature than in cities, he also shies away from grand gestures, intellectual wrestling, or hyperbole. What makes his courage possible, it seems, is a trust in the few simple principles he’s seen operate in his own character. In the end, he trusts in principles of character that, as he says, make you “feel good because you are doing good things.”
T R U S T I N G O U R F A I T H :
T H E W A T E R G A T E P L U M B E R S
In the flat light of a Thanksgiving afternoon in 1973, a thirty-four-year-old lawyer stood on the lawn outside the House of Burgesses, once the home of the colonial legislature in Williamsburg, Virginia. With him were his wife and two young children. Behind him was a tumultuous year in which he had been sworn in as undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation and feted by President Richard M. Nixon at a candle-lit, seven-course White House dinner—only to resign three months later, a casualty of the widening Watergate investigation. Ahead of him, though he did not know it that November day, was a six-month jail sentence and disbarment from the legal profession. And all around him were agonizing decisions, as he sought to hold together the shards of a once-stellar career.
Egil Krogh—his friends call him Bud—had joined the Nixon administration in 1968.
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