http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw7TM_q0SOY
Can you imagine Gandhi making excuses? Can you imagine Alice Paul making
excuses? Can you imagine anyone making
excuses to Gandhi, Alice Paul? Can you
imagine Steve Biko, or Rachel Corrie making excuses? Can you imagine Diane Wilson making
excuses? Unimaginable in all those
cases.
They don't make excuses, they don't accept excuses. Failure
is not an option for these people. They
don't play to play. They don't play to
feel good. They don't play to do
something. They play to win.
Can you imagine an activist in the last 40 years that
doesn't accept excuses from their co, so-called activists? I can't, with the few exceptions like Diane
Wilson, Rachel Corrie,the anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and some of
the activists associated with the Palestinian cause.
But excuses are the way of life for activism in the last 40
years ,and unimaginable among the great activists throughout history. Unimaginable.
You want to play our you want to win? You want to be an activist or do you want
'act' like an activist? You want a
future, or do you want excuses? That's
your choice. Fortunately for you, it's a clear choice. We see what happens when people hold
themselves to the highest moral standards, the highest standards of
performance, failure is not as an option, excuses therefore are irrelevant and
intolerable. We have example after
example after example the power of that, and we have 40 years of seeing the
impotence of excuses as lifestyle.
You have a clear choice friends and yet very little time to
make that choice.
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