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Journalist Juan Williams delivers message
of activism

The greatest leaders have often evolved from the unlikeliest and even most reluctant young people, Juan Williams told an overflow crowd at the annual Currier Lecture Oct. 5.

The Emmy Award-winning journalist, author and commentator exhorted students to recognize that within each and every one of them is the spirit of a young Nelson Mandela or Thurgood Marshall. He encouraged them to defy those who try to lull them into complacency and “surprise yourselves, surprise your parents and surprise your teachers by rising up to become real American leaders.”

Though Williams’s talk was titled “An Insider’s Guide to Washington: Thoughts on the 2004 Election,” he said that, rather than speak from any one political perspective, he wanted to persuade people to take it upon themselves to learn as much as possible about what is happening in the country and to understand that it is the people who actually have the power to bring about political change.

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