Can you give me the full part of the oration piece Tyranny of False Values?

Answer 1

The Tyranny Of False Virtues (Unknown)

I am the youth of the land. I am told that I am fickle and playful, that I am soft and easygoing. I am accused of being naughty and proud and distrustful, of not having the right attitude, my leaders tell me they do not know where this country is headed for, that they wonder with gloomy sense of foreboding what I shall do with this land when it is left to me as my heritage, when it is willed to me as my own.

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I am the youth of the land. I do not stand before you to whitewash my errors. I admit that the accusations hurled against me are in great part true. But in all justice, in all fairness, in all deference to truth, do not hold me entirely accountable for my failings, do not overburden me with the sins of the world, do not crucify me to a cross I do not fashion.

I may be young, I may be inexperienced - but I am not blind. I can see the future with a certainty that I alone can feel, for I feel it in my blood.

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And I see my leaders, who have built a towering mansion of state on sand. And the sand shifts and the towering mansion falls. Not a pillar stands, for all is ruined. And wandering among the shambles in that mass of ruins, I stumble upon the monuments of upturned graves of my leaders. And my soul is black with resentment and I curse them with a hatred that only youth can possess, as I stare at the bleak sky and swear: May you memory be damned by my destiny! And the picture comes vaguer, and more fearful in it vagueness, as it comes closer and grows more terrifying in its certainty. And I am alone and helpless in my youth, and I reach forth for a hand t guide me. And what I ask is so little.

Give me leaders who shall devote themselves no longer to a privileged minority but to the cause of the underprivileged majority.

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Give me leaders who shall lead lives fraught with hardships and sacrifice, who shall demand of themselves before they demand of me.

Give me leaders who shall have successors tempered in the crucible of merit.

Give me leaders and theirs is my mind to mould. Give me leaders and theirs is my blood to shed. Give me leaders and theirs is my will to command. Give me leaders and theirs is my destiny to shape. Give me leaders - and I shall follow them to the end of the earth. !!!

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