Truth Teller #5 Nelson Mandela. First democratically elected President of South Africa. After spending almost three decades in jail for his anti-apartheid activities, Mandela emerged from prison without anger or bitterness to negotiate an end to the racially segregated regime. The example of grace he set made him beloved the World over.
Truth Teller #7 Edmund Burke. I will throw conservatives a bone here by quoting the father of modern conservatism. I think his observation that government is a pact between the dead, the living and the yet born is majestic, concise and true today as it was when he wrote the words in the late 1700s. But now that we have the power to wipe humanity off the planet, I believe the meaning of that truth has changed.
