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Education is about shaking your foundations. Cornel West.

One of the most haunting images of someone making a difference is from Tiananmen Square – a single act of defiance was captured with a man standing against an armored tank. If each of us would take our civic engagement seriously, then I think many social ills would diminish or disappear.

I’m not speaking expressly about the political arena, but about injustices that we see every day in our sphere of influence. A grass roots movement begins with a single person. Regarding change, we either look to someone else, or we wait for someone else. It takes one person to support a colleague, one person to curtail bad behavior, one person to take a stand. One. Turn the page…