Friday, June 06, 2008

Profile in courage ...

... Why We Need More Leaders Like Vaclav Havel. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It is a mark of Havel’s character that when Czechoslovak officials, eager to be rid of him (one of the country’s leading troublemakers), actually offered to let him move to the West and take a dream job he had been offered with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Havel, who at the time was working in a brewery, refused. “The solution to this human situation,” he wrote, “does not lie in leaving it.”

That reminds me of someone.

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