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Analysis of the difference between leaders and dictators
by Joseph Ernest May 13, 2011
Newscast Media -- 2011 will go down as the year citizens across the world stood up for their rights and cured the vice of complacency that tends to plague the oppressed out of fear of the unknown.
In looking all the events unfolding around the world, there is a distinct similarity in the way heads of state have been characterized either by their own people or by international observers. These rulers who are fighting to stay in power have been labeled dictators. Dictators aren't necessarily leaders, because leadership is a very noble calling, whereby leaders are not born, but are made. Whether the label is fitting or not is up to the citizens of each country to decide, however, this writer has compiled what he believes characterizes and differentiates leaders from dictators:
- A leader has his peoples' best interests at heart, a dictator has his own interests at heart.
- A leader corrects injustices, a dictator commits and encourages injustices.
- A leader protects the weak and helpless, a dictator oppresses the weak and helpless.
- A leader unites the people, a dictator creates division and polarizes the people.
- Leaders advance and develop their countries, dictators setback and destroy their countries.
- When people are hurting, leaders share the peoples' grief, dictators hurt and grieve their own people.
- Leaders are loved because they don’t instill fear in their people, dictators are hated because they instill fear in their people.
- Leaders comfort the oppressed, dictators oppress the comfortable.
- Leaders are trusted by their people, dictators betray the trust of their people.
- Leaders abide by the Law of the land, dictators are the Law of the land.
- It takes a leader to notice another leader, it takes a dictator to destroy a leader.
- Leaders will always be remembered for the problems they solved, dictators will always be remembered for the problems they created.
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