Man is a great enough creature and a great enough enigma to deserve both our pride and our compassion, and engage our fullest sense of mystery. I shall certainly never do as much with my life as I want to, and I shall sometimes fail miserably to live up to my conscience, whose word I do not distrust even when I can’t obey it. But I am terribly glad to be alive; and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American, with all the rights and privileges that those words connote; and most of all I am humble before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility, and being born luckier than most of the world’s millions, I am also born more obligated. | |
— Wallace Stegner | |
From: “Everything Potent Is Dangerous“ | |
Found at one of the blogs I follow: The Bully Pulpit //http:/www.jrbenjamin.com | |
The original post is at: http://jrbenjamin.com/2015/01/18/wallace-stegner-what-i-believe/ | |
[The site is well worth a visit… — KMAB] | |
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Born More Obligated
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