I thought the
following quote written by James Comey in his book "A Higher Loyalty --
Truth, Lies and Leadership" was another example among many that
represents the essence of an honorable man:
He
says, "All of us have encounters with death in our lives. It's
inevitable. I've had my share. I visited Patrice [his wife] who at that
time was just my girlfriend, while she was in the Peace Corps in a
remote village in Sierra Leon, West Africa, I nearly died from
contracting malaria. If she had not driven me in the middle of the
night on the back of her motorcycle and literally dragged me into a
remote hospital, I would not have made it. But
sometimes it isn't when we face death ourselves, but rather death takes
away those we love the most, that we really learn about just how short
our time on earth is and why what we do with that time matters."
These are the words of a thoughtful empathetic man who does, in my opinion, not deserve the pillorying he has gotten from the most irreverent, thoughtless and cruel human on earth who unhappily just happens to be our president now.
Hang tight, Mr. Comey, keep hoping President Obama's thought rings true: "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice." President Obama took that quote from Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King took that quote from Justice Theodore Parker. In case one does not know who Theodore Parker is as I did not Wiki explains: "Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr." and I might add President Barack H. Obama. I imagine that James Comey might be on that distinguished list too.
