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if somebody told you that you can change the world would you believe it

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this was a sentence that was told to me by ambassadors and experts who worked in

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the field of social change for many many years at the United Nations for me it

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was comforting to know that the previous generation have so much confidence that

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us the males are the ones who can bring about change that have never been seen

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before but then it dawned on me

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it is true that we are more than ever involved in conversations both online

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and offline about all the problems in the world we are taught to be passionate

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and responsible and to think about the society before ourselves and that is

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embedded in our education and the people around us and it is true there have been

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many studies and researches made on how Millennials think today a study made by

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deloitte and many other leading firms show that six out of ten of the new

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generations say that they want to work for a company that has a purpose and not

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just any purpose but the purpose of creating positive impact one-fourth of

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consumers are demanding products that are ethical and sustainable and eighty

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percent of all Millennials say that it is our responsibility to work towards a

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better world and that is regardless of whether you're a government or a company

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or an individual so with all these power that we have with technology with the

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conversations we have then when i look back

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at the people i know at home and my university and my friends I realized

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that we don't do much although a lot of people say that they want change that

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they wish to see a better world a very small portion of those people go out and

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try to change things for themselves and something the question of why why is it

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so difficult for us to make changes to the world there are many reasons to this

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one it could be fear the fear of uncertainty it could be the lack of

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reason not knowing why we should do it or it could just be about the comfort

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zone

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maybe it's better we just stay where we are because we don't really know if

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where we want to be is really better from my experience I've come down to one

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ultimate conclusion which is that it is because of one word comprehension it is

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almost impossible for us to imagine how we as a single individual can change the

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entire planet

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I mean talk about things simple things like new year resolution

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how many people here have kept their promise to their your new year

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resolution this year

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very few congratulations I don't have a lot of success stories to tell you about

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my new year resolutions but what I do have for you today are stories of

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individuals who have inspired me with life lessons that I've kept to this very

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day three individuals who live in very extreme circumstances and different

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social statuses but we're able to teach me values that are so much bigger than

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themselves and they made me believe that the answer to the question that if and

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can one person change the world

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the answer is yes

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so my journey taught me that there are three key components into creating a

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world of change and that is one understand two do and three believe the

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components are interconnected and without even single one of them it is

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impossible for us to change the world

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so looking at the very first step or rather the very first components because

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it's more of flow rather than steps in order to solve any problem you have to

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understand it so there are two main ways to understand the problem

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one is through the eyes of others and the other is through our own having

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grown up in a family that was in the middle class i was given a lot of

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privileges in my life I heard a lot about poor people about people who don't

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have a lot of opportunity

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a lot of people around the world need help but no matter how much I try it is

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impossible for me to understand truly what it's like to be like that because

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I'm not raised and i'm not in that kind of environment so for years ago I

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decided that this needed to change that I needed to go and understandings for

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myself so what did I see I saw the things that people talk about the lack

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of opportunity but it's even more than that I felt for the first time in my

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life

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what it meant to live without electricity without access to clean

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water without rooms that have a roof on it and see children walk to school

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without any shoes for the first time I felt the desperation and the lack of

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opportunity to these people felt

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but my biggest understanding wasn't about their living condition but rather

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it was a realization that was given to me by this one little girl in the

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picture one morning when I woke up and I walk out of my room

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this little girl was standing there with her hands folded on her back and she was

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smiling cheerfully playfully as I walked up to her she ran towards me stretch out

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her hands open for tiny little palm and inside for two pieces of candy

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I said all who is this for she said for you and I asked why and she said

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something that touched me deeply

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she said because it makes me happy

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a little girl who's barely ten years old that lives in a condition where she can

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barely afford food for lunch for school tuition or even books to go to school

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wanted to give me something that she often doesn't get and that's when I

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realized the power of human connection i understood my role as a person in that

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setting i was there to give hope to give them the opportunity to become someone

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so much better than what they are and not let their circumstances to find them

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and I realize the true value of human connection and that our ultimate

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responsibility is to help and to take care of one another as human beings

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without going to see things for myself I could not have had this understanding

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the next component is to do

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why do we have to do things well first of all the obvious reason is if you

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don't do anything

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nothing can change but the second reason is because life is a learning process

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that never ends

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no matter how old you are you're always going to learn from the mistakes that

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you make and if you want to make the world a better place then you have to

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know how to do it and I learned this from various situations as I started to

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do things along the way and what did I do

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well since i joined university are taken part in my faculties were all projects

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where we go and build rooms in school and also teach english and give

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donations i took that very quickly to the next level and to get to

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international stages i joined the largest student organization in the

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world that sends volunteers abroad to do community service and i facilitated that

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experience with a team of leaders young leaders and change many people's lives

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that way but all of this began four years ago when i took seven high school

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students from Finland with me to Thailand to do community service for two

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weeks

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this is a picture of us when we were doing community service at father a

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foundation and this is where we were teaching the disabled people english one

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morning when I walked down i saw man was sitting in a wheelchair being the good

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volunteer and the good teenager that i was i walked after him and I said hey

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sir where would you like to go

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he turned and he said I'm fine thank you and in Thailand we're tired of this very

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special word that can't really be translated to english which is going to

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die and that's when I felt I thought that he was feeling he didn't want to

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put the burden on me to have to take him

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somewhere so I walked up to him and I grabbed his fields hear about your arms

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and I said where do you want to go let me take you the next three minutes

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were in complete silence we didn't change a single work when we arrived at

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the destination he started feeling his chair turn back halfway gave a fake

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smile and we all the way as a teenager I didn't really quite understand what

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happened did I do something wrong

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why did he was so sad and now that I've had the chance to reflect on it I

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realized that in that three minutes

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I did something really important I took away his independence I took away his

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capabilities and it wasn't his disability that disabled him but it was

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I who disabled him and that moment I realized that there is a certain way

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that we have to help people

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we can't just go around and help people by giving them what they need but we

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have to make sure that when we leave that place they will be able to stand on

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their own feet and be able to make dreams for themselves

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we must make them feel that they are capable of being just as equal as

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everyone else and they are and they deserve to be and so as you can see by

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doing again then you understanding so there really isn't a way for you to

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understand without doing because if you really understand things and don't do

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anything there can be no change and if you do things without understanding you

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could be doing things wrong

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and so finally comes the last components which for me is the most crucial one

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believe after doing community service for about three years I had a chance to

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sit down and ask myself is what I'm doing really matter and I really

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changing anybody's life

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am I really doing anything meaningful at all and then I started to doubt i

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started to wonder if i can really change the world and then came a professor who

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gave a thank-you speech at the end of a camp for the first time in my life I saw

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40-year old men walk up on stage grab the microphone in front of his face and

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cried he spoke one sentence and one sentence only cocoon TN brow

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thank you for seeing us he could have thanked us for the room that we built

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for the English that we taught for donations that we gave but he chose to

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thank are simply for seeing their community

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I was so struck how can somebody feel so little and they collected in this world

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to the point where they feel like they're not even seen and then I

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realized that sometimes in life something that we do that is so little

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can mean so much to an individual and it can inspire them to do things and become

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so much more than we were so I started to believe that yes we can make a

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difference

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and so going back to my very first question can one person relations the

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world I have a confession i haven't not yet but I think you guys know the answer

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to the question because you can name individuals who you say have made

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changes to the world i'm gonna be Steve Jobs Bill Gates the list goes on and on

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and you can tell me this list for the entire night but most of these people

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were not alone

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they were leaders of thought of action and they had people who believed in the

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scenes they were trying to create that's how they were able to create changes in

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the world and so for me it is time that we start complaining about things this

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time that we take things into our own hands with his power of technology and

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everything that we have right now it is possible for us as individuals to change

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the world

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Mahatma Gandhi once said that be the wish you changed to see in this world i

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think that we must be the change that we see in this world because we cannot sit

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around and expect that one day somebody will show up and make them happen for us

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imagine a world where everyone is afraid that things will stay the same more than

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they're afraid of change and that everyone gets up together and say we

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have to make these changes happen that I can be Steve Jobs I can be mahatma

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gandhi I can be people who make an impact to this world but that the world

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of you want to leave him for me once that happens and we add all the little

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abilities that we have that we can change the world together we can begin

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to see small changes in our community positive change

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and once that happens and add all the communities together we can see a change

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in our country and finally we can really see a profound change in our world it is

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up to us is a choice if we want to believe that we can or not and so I

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would like to finally leave you with a quote that I hope that you can all say

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to yourselves when you leave this room and also tell others that they too

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should be saying this quote is that I am the change we all wish to see in the

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world

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thank you