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A Woman of Small Stature but Big Impact

With the recent spike of racial and cultural intolerance paired together with gender based violence that has been running the late night and early morning news bulletin, I couldn’t  help but see a society that is in dire need of some true leaders to show us the way. As I pondered over these unpleasant incidences, I began to look back into history to find examples of such leaders who stood up at when the world set back in its self created injustices. In all of history there had been many leaders who defied the general status quo of indifference to the plight of their neighbours, Muhammadans Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II the Dalai Lama. Among these great leaders of man there was one who really inspired me, Mother Teresa .   Mother Teresa is probably one of the greatest epitome of what it means to be made of greatness as a woman called to a cause greater than yourself. Her greatness was a result of her humbleness as a woman to be a servant to th