Leaders Who Serve : 4.20.07

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"If you want to be important - that's wonderful. If you want to be great - that's wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's your new definition of greatness - it means that everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know the second law of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love..." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was standing room only in the Thomas Davis Theatre at Trinity College Dublin on Friday, 20th April 2007 as Suas Educational Development presented the “Extraordinary Lives: Leaders who Serve” lecture.

This annual event presents a space for leaders from all walks of life to reflect and share their personal views and experiences of leadership; the journey they have taken and the challenges they have faced along the way.

The lecture was chaired by RTE News Anchor, Mr. Bryan Dobson and featured Mr. Peter Sutherland, UN Special Representative for Migration and Development, former Director General of the WTO and Chairman of The Ireland Fund of Great Britain and Mary Lawlor, Founder of Front Line – the International Foundation for the protection of Human Rights Defenders.

Front Line was recently awarded the 2006-2007 King Baudouin International Development Prize “ for the effectiveness of their efforts to combat the isolation faced by human rights defenders around the world, for the support and protection that they offer them, and for their continuing advocacy in favour of an international plan of action for human rights, which is an essential condition for development."