Friday's Revolutionary Dog Speech

Revolutions start not when conditions are at their worst, but only after they have begun to improve, changes have been instituted, leadership has developed, and the people have come to have a new vision of what might be. Real revolutions are not begun in the streets or with guns and bombs.  People who have changed the universe have never accomplished it that way.
Think about it… Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandella, a guy called Jesus, and others...they’ve done it by inspiring the people. 
And once that inspiration is there, once people have seen what "can" be, there is no going back.  It is only when peaceful revolution is made impossible, that violent revolution becomes inevitable.  John F. Kennedy said that.   Syria is living it right now. 
Revolutions are begun – and won - in the minds and hearts of people – and they are not always violent. Revolutions are as simple as changing minds and looking at life in new ways.
Revolutionaries realize that they can’t change their world at once – they can only change the way they look at it and deal with it. They can only change the ways they deal with the people around them and the world they live in. They realize that the big change comes that way.  One person at a time…beginning with ourselves. And that, my friends, is the hardest change to make. 
One of Martin Luther King's lesser known quotes is one of my favorites, because speaks to the need for change to come from within, not from outside or above: 
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
Whatever you choose to do with the rest of your life, remember one thing. It is all up to you. You are where you are because you choose to be there. Don’t let someone tell you “you can’t do that”. The biggest thing I have learned in my 60 years of life, is that there is will never be enough money, time, available resources or helpful people to do anything we want to do. Success is in finding ways to do it anyway.
Go be successful peaceful revolutionaries.