quarta-feira, 6 de fevereiro de 2008

Quem me dera ter um líder assim....

Duas notas iniciais:


  1. Desculpa Ladybird por me aproveitar do teu título....

  2. Não tenho qualquer intenção de mudar o mundo.

Dei por mim a pensar na força da palavra...
Serão as palavras ou as acções que mudam o mundo? (ver nota inicial, ponto 2).
Provavelmente ambos.
Concentrei-me de seguida em recordar palavras, frases ou textos (textos científicos não contam) que tenham de alguma forma mudado o mundo e... não me lembrei de nenhum!!! Faço desde já um repto a quem consiga preencher esta minha grande lacuna, que envie para ordemdascoisas grandes frases ou textos que tenham contribuido de alguma forma para uma mudança...

Que as palavras são bonitas... isso são. Quando articuladas em conjunto por mestres da escrita ou da prosa possuem o condão de nos despertar emoções fortes. Foi então que me lembrei de um grande discurso, de um grande político, de um grande e pequeno país, para lá do pôr do Sol.

É parte desse discurso que quero partilhar com os leitores:



On mindless Menance of Violence
Ohio, 1962

“…For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter. This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all.

…Yet we know what we must do. It is to achieve true justice among our fellow citizens. The question is not what programs we should seek to enact. The question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts that leadership of humane purpose that will recognize the terrible truths of our existence.
We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge.
Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution.
But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can. Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again.”

Robert Kennedy
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1 comentário:

Anónimo disse...

Parabéns
Mais um excelente momento da nossa s.
É bonito e faz pensar, no entanto também devemos recordar que o RK acabou com uma bala na cabeça. Terá sido por causa deste discurso e o que ele poderia representar em termos de mudança numa USA profundamente conservadora?

Mr. Anderson