by Brian Inkster
27. October 2009 21:15
Go to the people.
Live with them,
Learn from them,
Love them.
Start with what they know,
Build with what they have.
But of the best leaders
When the work is done
The task accomplished
The people will say,
"We have done this ourselves."
Lao-Tzu (Chinese poem, 700 BC)
As published in the Habitat for Humanity Global Village Orientation Manual
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