At our student ministries Garage Sale, when we were cleaning up, I found a copy! I got to take it home for free! Score!
Everybody that knew I was reading it said things along the lines of:
'I love that book'
'I read that book in high school'
'It's such a good book'
and I really is a great book.
It's definitely worth reading.
What shook me the most was his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech at the very end:
"As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.
Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately."
All I can think of when I read that last sentence is:
"My life no longer belongs to me; it belongs to the One I need desperately."
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