Speak it, teach it, and live it.

If you think you’re too small to have an impact try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

– Anita Roddick

During the first couple of seconds it took to read this, I realized how it perfectly encompassed how I often feel. I am constantly finding the words"who will notice anyways" run through my head. In all reality those words could never be more untrue. Every where we go, in everything we do, we are making our own impact... possibly life changing impact on someone. Sometimes for the better, but sometimes also for the worst. It seemed to me that the times you are not trying to make a statement, make an impact, are when you do the most. It is the simple act of sending someone a card, to finding the strength to stand up for something ONLY you believe in. Sometime we ARE tying to impact someone, or make a difference, but often feel as if our deeds are going unseen, or are not reflecting the impact we hope to have made. And in those times just think of that great quote above. Also realize that even though we become discouraged because our actions and impacts do not seem evident, realize sometimes it wont always show, but someone is ALWAYS impacted. Most everyone is familiar with the "I have a dream..." speech by Martin Luther King. However, to me the most important part of his whole speech is not in the speech. Its the fact that he stood up for what he believed in. In doing so Martin Luther King changed peoples lives, he even changed our world. The fact that he stood for something he was so passionate about, that when all said and done it cost him his life. In the statement that he too was once just another face in the crowd, with a unheard voice. That he was not trying to change the world but by preaching his beliefs he DID. Most people myself included never realize that we are always making statements, in our actions, in our speech, in the way we live, in EVERYTHING we do. We should never question our strength, our size, our beliefs. We are ALWAYS making a statement, sometimes one that will change a person, parents, sister, or a child . Sometimes our statement will even become famous. In all we do we need to Speak it, teach it, and live it with confidence. We need to always know that In ALL we do we are making an impact. Never become discouraged just because our action are not evident to us.

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."²

BY: Martin Luther King