Written by Yussuf Simmonds, (Asst. Managing Editor), on 11-15-2007 01:22
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Councilman Bernard Parks issued the following statement: “It is with great sorrow that I and my family have received the news of the passing of former Assembly-member and Congress-member Augustus F. Hawkins. Congressmember Hawkins was a personal friend and a role model to several generations of public servants. He was a “one of a kind” national leader!”
Augustus Hawkins’s philosophy of service and leadership to the State of California and the nations is perhaps best said in his own words: “The leadership belongs not to the loudest, not to those who beat the drums or blow the trumpets, but to those who day in and day out, in all seasons, work for the practical realization of a better world—those who have the stamina to persist and to remain dedicated. To those belongs the leadership.”
