{"id":76599,"date":"2023-04-10T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pppp.org.pk\/website\/?page_id=76599"},"modified":"2023-04-10T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:48:04","slug":"unique-lives-and-experiences-lecture-series-speech-by-ms-benazir-bhutto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pppp.org.pk\/website\/unique-lives-and-experiences-lecture-series-speech-by-ms-benazir-bhutto\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Lives and Experiences Lecture Series Speech by Ms Benazir Bhutto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row type=&#8221;container&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1680284512306{padding-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><span style=\"color: #2f3e5f; font-family: Arial;\">Unique Lives and Experiences Lecture Series<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #2f3e5f; font-family: Arial;\"><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Speech by<b>\u00a0<\/b>Ms Benazir Bhutto<br \/>\nLeader of the Opposition<br \/>\nDelivered at Cambridge &#8211; USA<b><br \/>\n<\/b>May 02, 1998<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"hr02.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"4\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\"><small><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Ladies and gentlemen,\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/span><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Ladies and gentlemen,\u00a0 leadership and courage are often synonymous.<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Ultimately, leadership depends on action, daring to take actions that are necessary but unpopular, to challenging institutions and traditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">To do what is right, not necessarily what is popular.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">To educate and move an electorate, as opposed to just responding to what people want.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">In Pakistan, we demonstrated leadership by increasing revenue to create sensible macroeconomic policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Ladies and gentlemen,\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Our generation stands at the door way of history.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Not only the door way of a new century, but the doorway of a new millennium.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">And as we prepare ourselves to meet this century, this new millennium, I believe we need to clearly understand the challenges that still await us and await the century.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">It is up to us, all of us, to determine the moral parameters of that new era &#8212; the coming decade, the coming century, the coming millennium.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Ladies and gentlemen,\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Our generation, the first in recorded history, is fundamentally empowered with the control of its own destiny.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The chains of the past &#8212; colonialism, ignorance, dictatorship and sexism &#8212; are broken.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The world has finally accepted, in the words of Robert Browning, that &#8220;ignorance is not innocence, but sin.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">We must persevere and not be intimidated by fear, not constrained by obstacles.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">I remember the last words of my father to me, writing to me from his death cell, quoting Robert F. Kennedy on Tennyson:\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">&#8220;Every generation has a central concern, whether to end war, erase racial injustice, or improve the conditions of working people. Young people today demand a government that speaks directly and honestly to its citizens.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The possibilities are too great, the stakes too high, to bequeath to the coming generation only the prophetic lament of Tennyson:\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">&#8216;Ah, what shall I be at fifty&#8230;If I find the world so bitter at twenty-five.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">I remember my father&#8217;s words. I will not be afraid. I will continue to speak, to fight, to help build a newer world.\u00a0<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><small><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.<\/span><\/small><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row type=&#8221;container&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1680284512306{padding-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text] Unique Lives and Experiences Lecture Series Speech by\u00a0Ms Benazir Bhutto Leader of the Opposition Delivered at Cambridge &#8211; USA May 02, 1998 Ladies and gentlemen,\u00a0 Ladies and gentlemen,\u00a0 leadership and courage are often synonymous. 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