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Parks’s story is a vivid rem<strong>in</strong>der thatwe have been graced with limelightavoid<strong>in</strong>gleaders throughout history.Moses, for example, was not, accord<strong>in</strong>gto some <strong>in</strong>terpretations <strong>of</strong> his story, thebrash, talkative type who would organizeroad trips and hold forth <strong>in</strong> aclassroom at Harvard Bus<strong>in</strong>ess School.On the contrary, by today’s standardshe was dreadfully timid. He spoke witha stutter and considered himself <strong>in</strong>articulate.<strong>The</strong> book <strong>of</strong> Numbers describeshim as “very meek, above all the menwhich were upon the face <strong>of</strong> the earth.”When God first appeared to him <strong>in</strong>the form <strong>of</strong> a burn<strong>in</strong>g bush, Moses wasemployed as a shepherd by his father<strong>in</strong>-law;he wasn’t even ambitiousenough to own his own sheep. Andwhen God revealed to Moses his role asliberator <strong>of</strong> the Jews, did Moses leap atthe opportunity? Send someone else to186/929

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