Here’s a do-gooder who is known for doing good.  They say if there was an Oscar for humanitarian awareness and action Sean Penn would have one.  Well, now he does.  The equivalent Peace Summit Award was recently awarded to Penn.  The Oscar winner was given the award in large part due to his strong crusading for Haiti during the aftermath of the earthquake (2010).

 

“It’s an overused phrase, I know, but I trust you know its genuine today, I am humbled. I’m trembling and I like it,” Penn said while sharing the stage with the Dalai Lama and former Polish President Lech Walesa.

 

An emotional Penn used this time to urge more aid for Haiti.     

“It would take a poet laureate to describe for you the courage and the dignity of (Haiti’s) people,” he said. “There are no people on earth more willing to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. But as Dr. Martin Luther King said, it’s fine to tell a man to pull himself up by his own bootstraps, but evil to tell a man to do so without boots.”

 

Just think what the world would be like if more of us had this kind of humanitarian spirit.