No explanation or embellishment necessary . . .
Few will have the greatness to bend history,
but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events,
and then the total - all of these acts -
will be written in the history of this generation.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief
that human history is shaped.
Each time a man stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice,
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each from a million different centers of energy
and daring those ripples to build a current
which can sweep down the mightiest walls
of oppression and resistance.
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