成长的过程中，你是否也有过同样的困惑?在这里，马丁·路德·金的“我有一个梦想”获得了不一样的诠释，希望能对你有所帮助。小编带来这篇优秀英文美文阅读，详情如下。

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How Small People Make A Big Difference

成长的过程中，你是否也有过同样的困惑?在这里，马丁·路德·金的“我有一个梦想”获得了不一样的诠释，希望能对你有所帮助。

Repression

Today, as I was relaxing at the beach, I couldn't help but eavesdrop on a conversation four high school kids we having on the beach blanket next to me. Their conversation was about making a positive difference in the world. And it went something like this…

"It's impossible to make a difference unless you're a huge corporation or someone with lots of money and power," one of them said.

"Yeah man," another replied. "My mom keeps telling me to move mountains – to speak up and stand up for what I believe. But what I say and do doesn't even get noticed. I just keep answering to ‘the man’ and then I get slapped back in place by him when I step out of line."

"Repression…" another snickered.

I smiled because I knew exactly how they felt. When I was their age, I was certain I was being repressed and couldn't possibly make a difference in this world. And I actually almost got expelled from school once because I openly expressed how repressed I felt in the middle of the principals’ office.

I Have A Dream

Suddenly, one of the kids noticed me eavesdropping and smiling. He sat up, looked at me and said, "What? Do you disagree?" Then as he waited for a response, the other three kids turned around too.

Rather than arguing with them, I took an old receipt out of my wallet, ripped it into four pieces, and wrote a different word on each piece. Then I crumbled the pieces into little paper balls and handed a different piece to each one of them.

"Look at the word on the paper I just gave you and don't show it to anyone else." The kids looked at the single word I had handed each of them and appeared confused. "You have two choices," I told them. "If your word inspired you to make a difference in this world, then hold onto it. If not, give it back to me so I can recycle the paper." They all returned their words.

I scooted over, sat down on the sand next to their beach blanket and laid out the four words that the students had returned to me so that the words combined to form the simple sentence, "I have a dream."

"Dude, that's Martin Luther King Jr.," one of the kids said.

"How did you know that?" I asked.