She may have lost some of the important points of the message along the way through lack of the skills of delivery, but I have rarely been more moved.
Yes it's another videolink from YouTube - but fuckin' Watch it! Far from being the hippy you might assume me to be I appreciate this at face value and not for any beliefs I have, for frankly, I have only three or four beliefs in the whole of reality.
This girl has, despite her few oratorical failings (and for a 12 year old speaking to a UN convention of international strong-armers they are magnificently handled) and the triteness of her speech in places, you and I and everyone else would do better in every way by listening to, and remembering this remarkable speech:
I would have loved to have been able to do this, from the facts of her situation, and sheer raw bravery, at her age.
2008-05-25 @ 11:33