I am a Speaker and Leader... I have traveled through time on waves of words empowered by those who spoke before my time.
I have stood with head bowed in admiration as Pericles told the citizens of Athens the whole world was the graveyard for fallen heroes.
I have walked the streets of Rome and heard Cicero proclaim that a good Speaker was a good Man speaking.
My self confidence became reinforced when first lady Eleanor Roosevelt told young people that no one could make them feel inferior without their consent...
I was in Washington D.C. when President Kennedy challenged his countrymen to ask not what their country could do for them but what they could do for their country... and years later, I was there when Dr. Martin Luther King woke up a sleeping nation with his Dream for a more just and humane society...
Hills of Hope grew in my soul at Gettysburg when President Lincoln pledged that this government of the people, by the people and for the people would not perish from the earth...
Courage was created in my soul when Franklin Roosevelt told us we had nothing to fear but fear itself, and when Ronald Reagan reminded us America was destined to be a shining city upon a hill...
I was inspired when Helen Keller spoke from her dark and silent world and told us that life was either a daring adventure or it was nothing...
John Kennedy best described the duty of a speaker in his tribute to Sir Winston Churchill when he said, "In England's darkest hour, and deepest peril... Churchill empowered the English language and sent it into battle..."
Churchill created courage in his countrymen when he challenged them to so conduct themselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasted for a thousand years, men would say, "This was their Finest Hour."
While I am a speaker and leader, I must never forget my role as a dedicated listener... and as one who pays attention to the needs and desires of his audiences, for they are the true givers, as they have shared their time and attention with me.
As a speaker, I enjoy a unity with... Continue
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