Reflective Essay 4
It was shown throughout history that words have power
over people and that words can move hearts and change minds. Historical figures
and past leaders had great influence on people and they were able to do that by
mere words. Nowadays these words that were once used by great individuals are
immortalized in books.
“A Person that values its privileges above its
principles soon loses both.” These were the words of Dwight Eisenhower a
former leader of the United States, in this quote he says that if people cared
more for their material riches than their morals and values they would have
lost not only what makes them human their material wealth would have been lost
as well.
Desmond Tutu once
said “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
He was a South African social rights activist
fighting against the apartheid during the 1980. When all of the people acknowledge
that other people are human and all are equal if that was possible I believe we
can accomplish a true form of human-kind.
“If art is to nourish
the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision
wherever it takes him.” This is a quote
from J.F Kennedy, also a former president of the United States. He believed
that art can strengthen the roots of a culture, but only if the artist is free
and able to fulfill his dream. This quote appealed to me because I think that
art is a form of truth from the perspective of an artist.
These quotes were able to make people
think and see things from a different angle. The individuals who said these quotes
had a similar dream and that dream was freedom and the welfare of mankind.
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