Key Idea: Ordinary Folks Can Do Great Things
[SARN Memo for February 1, 2012]
An idea has a lot of power. It can lead to big changes. Often, a leader is someone with a big idea that guides him or her.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was the most well-known leader of the civil rights movement. One of his central ideas was the power of ordinary people to do great things. He said, “Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.... You don’t have to know about Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve.... You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.”
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Declarations of Independence
You’ll hear the voices of ordinary people in this powerful four-minute DVD. It features ten self-advocates proclaiming some of their deepest values about disability, civil rights and living with dignity.
Today’s Trivia Question:
The federal Civil Rights Act legally desegregated all aspects of community life. What year did this happen?
- 1954
- 1964
- 1974
- 1984
(The answer will be published in the next Memo.)
Answer to December 28th Trivia Question: c. 1969
Question was: Self-advocacy follows in the footsteps of a number of rights movements in the US. One of the rights movements that helped inspire the self-advocacy movement was the gay rights movement. The Stonewall riots and the ensuing rallies in New York City sparked the beginning of the gay rights movement. What year did this happen?
- 1949
- 1959
- 1969
- 1979
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