Cast Down Your Bucket & Lead Where You Are
In his 1895 Cotton States Exposition address, Civil Rights leader Booker T. Washington, urged his followers to “Cast down your bucket where you are.” He challenged those listening (and now us all) to focus on the things we could change in our own lives and the world. He knew that the only way to perpetuate progress in a world full of inequities and injustices was to throw your individual efforts and energy into working…