{"id":118311,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/118311/?format=json","text_counter":441,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we sit here today in this august House, I want to appeal to this Parliament that in wisdom, we shall shine together but in pettiness and self pity, we shall sink. I now remember the words of Ted Kennedy, the late senator from Massachusetts, in his autobiography, published a few months before he passed on. He said that in the Kennedy family, we were always taught never to fear taking unpopular stance and never to give into self-pity, even when we are suffering and odds are against us. But we were taught the discipline of perseverance because resoluteness is the essence of struggle; perseverance brings victory in the end."}