Martin Luther King, Jr. - Real big name, right?

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Martin Luther King, Jr. - Real big name, right?

Mahatma Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau , Malcolm X - all big names!

Within the movmvents of the sixties, Mario Savio, Phil Ochs, Sharon Jeffreys, Tom Hayden, Joan Baez, Stokley Carmichael, Bob Dylan were all nationally recongized as leaders towards change.


I hear you murmuring now. I've murmured it myself. "But I could never be like that." "I don't have that much time." "What about all of those people who DON'T get recognized?"

You don't NEED to be like that. You don't need to give that much time. You don't need to be nationally recognized in order to help improve your world. The people who lick envelopes once a month, the people who attend a demonstration, the people who send a letter to the president, the people who sign a petition - these are the people crucial to a successful movement.

It may not feel like your contributions do anything, but they certainly do. Say 10 people organize a demonstration. What is a 10 person demontration? It looks like a group of people waiting to cross the street. Add 50 people, 500 people, 5,000 people. Now that's demonstration. Of course, 500 people can't organize an event, but 500 people make it successful.

As a member of your community, you choose which demonstrations you attend. Your attendence at events shows that you care and that you believe in the cause. It is like an election in which your vote is counted by your involvement. The events which get the most votes are the ones which get the most attention.

If that's not enough for you, DON'T GIVE UP!!! Become more involved until you do feel like you're doing enough to make a change.






ITS TIME TO GET INVOLVED ----IF YOU ARENT YET JUST START tHINKING ABOUT IT


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