Rosalynn Carter's quiet victory: How she saved thousands and took no credit

Thu, 4 Jan 2024 12:37:47 +1100

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.salon.com/2023/12/01/rosalynn-carters-quiet-victory-how-she-saved-thousands-and-took-no-credit/>

"The late civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis liked to talk about
the necessity for getting into “good trouble” —the moral duty for good people
to go about their lives by comforting the afflicted and afflicting the
comfortable — and in that spirit of the human need to seek redemption in a
broken world, he had much in common with his friend Rosalynn Carter, who died
last week.

While most Americans remember the former first lady for her visible public
advocacy for mental health and human rights — including her leadership of
President Carter’s Commission on Mental Health, which led to passage of the
Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 — few understood how much she was able to
accomplish on that mission by exercising her formidable influence behind the
scenes, leaving credit to others when it meant ensuring that the most
vulnerable among us were cared for and protected from harm. I was privileged to
watch her quietly work that complicated political room once, though on an
international scale, with a profound impact on the lives of thousands of
people."

Via Joyce Donahue and Diane A.

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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