Does one person really matter?…. Can one person change the world?

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Does one person really matter?…. Can one person change the world?

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Does one person really matter?….

Can one person change the world?

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We asked hundreds of people…

“Why don’t you step up to try to make things better…

in your community…,

in your work place…,

in the world?”

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People said,

...because…it won’t matter if I step up, I am only one person.

But what if… one person DOES matter?

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What if ….instead of saying “Why me?”

…We asked “Why not me?”

History is filled with people whostepped up….

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A young woman with few credentials,

….and no money,

….asked for permission tostart an order,

…to help the sick and dying…  

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She won the Nobel Prize.

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Travis & David were two normal high school students.

One day, a kid was bullied for wearing a pink shirt.

When they heard about it…

they asked their fellow students to wear pink the next day.

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Almost every student did.

….today there are pink shirt days in 20countries. 

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Three women met a poor woman in Uganda…

working for a dollar a day in a rock quarry.

She sold them some jewelry that she made with recycled paper….

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They came home and started holding bead parties….

Now thousands of women have started businesses in Africa. Because three women… with no business experience said…

“Why not us?”

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Whales were being hunted to extinction….

then a group of journalists and activists

confronted the whaling fleet….

in the middle of the ocean….

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In rubber zodiacs…pretty naïve right?

...they took pictures that were seen around the world.

...it led to a worldwide ban on whaling.

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Stepping Up….does not have to be something big.

It can be picking up a piece of garbage.

…taking time to talk to a lonely person,

…riding your bike instead of your car,

….holding a bake sale for a cause

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Because….Every time someone steps up…

And decides to have their voice heard…

And chooses to believe…

that things can be better.

They create a ripple…

And the ripple can become…

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…A tidal wave.

Why not you?….

Until you try…

you won’t ever know…

how powerful…

You really are.

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Hear the stories of ordinary people…

Just like you…

Who are changing the world…

Right now.

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Tell us how you or someone else… has stepped up…. www.steppingupforchange