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"Your Job Is...To Do The Right Thing"
Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday warned federal prosecutors of increased scrutiny in the wake of mistakes:
Holder told assistant U.S. attorneys that they must respond to negative perceptions of federal prosecutors by doing "the right thing."
"Your job as assistant U.S. attorneys is not to convict people," Holder said. "Your job is not to win cases. Your job is to do justice.
Your job is in every case, every decision that you make, to do the right thing.
Anybody who asks you to do something other than that is to be ignored."
Holder: "You are expected to do nothing more than the right thing. Anything other than that is unacceptable."
Holder told assistant U.S. attorneys that they must respond to negative perceptions of federal prosecutors by doing "the right thing."
"Your job as assistant U.S. attorneys is not to convict people," Holder said. "Your job is not to win cases. Your job is to do justice.
Your job is in every case, every decision that you make, to do the right thing.
Anybody who asks you to do something other than that is to be ignored."
Holder: "You are expected to do nothing more than the right thing. Anything other than that is unacceptable."
You Saw His Weakness...
"You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you."
-Johann Schiller
-Johann Schiller
Moral Courage Is A Rarer Commodity
Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society.
Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.
- Robert F. Kennedy
People Are Fired Up
The public is fired up over the Rutgers basketball coach's behavior.
This quote from Andy Staples of Sports Illustrated regarding the issue is a great lesson:
"When I open my consultancy, one of the first things I'll tell my clients is to make decisions based on the assumption that the whole truth will eventually emerge."
"They Will Stop At Nothing To Destroy You"
"The lesson was simple:
If you offer the public a true story that is at odds with what [they] want you to know, they will stop at nothing to destroy you, your reputation, and the reputations of the people around you."
- Valerie Plame Wilson, Former CIA Covert Operations Officer
If you offer the public a true story that is at odds with what [they] want you to know, they will stop at nothing to destroy you, your reputation, and the reputations of the people around you."
- Valerie Plame Wilson, Former CIA Covert Operations Officer
The Courage To Stand Up
What are you supposed to do when the ones with power are hurting those with none?
Well, for starters you stand up. You stand up and tell the truth. You stand up for the victims.
You stand up even when you are all alone.
You stand up.
For those who are limited in number and have the courage to stand up, the reward is feeling no regret despite the pain they endure.
"Sending Forth A Tiny Ripple Of Hope"
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."
-Robert F. Kennedy
-Robert F. Kennedy
Penetrate Fear Into Those Who Go Against The Image
This story on Penn State is a great read:
The [Freeh] report says they together created a culture of secrecy that started at the top and penetrated fear into anyone who dared go against the Happy Valley image.
No one else within the university was involved, Freeh said, but he laid blame on the board of trustees for failing to supervise and allowing the insular attitudes of top officials to have an overwhelming effect on the university and on the community.
And there was no better evidence of that, Freeh said, than the decision by janitors in 2000 to not report seeing Sandusky [assaulting] a boy in a campus shower late at night because they feared for their jobs.
The [Freeh] report says they together created a culture of secrecy that started at the top and penetrated fear into anyone who dared go against the Happy Valley image.
No one else within the university was involved, Freeh said, but he laid blame on the board of trustees for failing to supervise and allowing the insular attitudes of top officials to have an overwhelming effect on the university and on the community.
And there was no better evidence of that, Freeh said, than the decision by janitors in 2000 to not report seeing Sandusky [assaulting] a boy in a campus shower late at night because they feared for their jobs.
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