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This reads as an argument that humility is an active moral choice, not a passive feeling. It can be taken to mean that lowering conflict starts with giving others equal worth, and even elevating them above ourselves in practice. It lands in family tension, community disputes, or any setting where pride keeps people locked in competition instead of care.
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About Ezra Taft Benson
American farmer and religious leader, secretary of agriculture and church president
Ezra Taft Benson was an American farmer, federal government official, and religious leader. He served as the 15th United States Secretary of Agriculture under Dwight D. Eisenhower and later became the 13th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He held the agriculture post throughout both Eisenhower administrations. In church leadership, he served from 1985 until his death in 1994. His public life centered on agriculture, government service, and religious leadership.
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