INDOMITABLE SPIRIT

I would like to share one event which is an essential component of our development today. Today what we need is a leadership with compassion. Let me narrate one experience which happened in Mexico.

A riot was raging in La Mesa Prison in Mexico. Twenty -five hundred prisoners were packed into a Compound, which had been built for only six hundred. They angrily hurled broken bottles at the police who fired back with machine guns. Then came a startling sight. A tiny five foot two inch, a startling sight. A tiny five foot two inch, sixty-three year old woman, calmly got into the crowd, with outstretched hands, in a simple gesture of peace. lgnoring the shower of bullets, she stood quietly and asked every-one to stop. In credibly every one did. No one else in the world , but sister Antonia could have done this. why did the people listen to her? All because of her decades of service to the prisoners by her choice. she sacrificed all her life for the sake of prisoners, lived in the midst of murders, thieves and drug lords all of whom she called her sons. she attended their needs round the clock, procured antibiotics, distributed eye-glasses, washed bodies for the burial and counselled those with suicide tendencies.This selfless act of love and compassion generated respect among the prisoners to control themselves and urged them to do what she wanted them to do.what a great message for humanity?we have seen a leader with compassion is there for even prisoners, but we need  leaders with compassion for the voiceless people of millions in the world.