If you are serious about making a change in your life you don’t have to make some drastic 180 degree shift in your life and turn your life upside down. Think of all those new year resolutions you have made at the beginning of the year and how motivated you were to go out and get started on them straight away. You joined the gym and when previously the word gym and exercise was walking from your front door to your car you now exercise at the gym 5 days a week and overhaul your diet as well. How often we find that after a few weeks we start to lose momentum and before you know it our new year resolutions is in the scrap heap and just a past memory.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realize it.

Life is a challenge, meet it.

Pray don't find fault with the man who limps
or stumbles along the road,
unless you have worn the shoes he wears
or struggled beneath his load.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.