have you ever think about changing the
world I believe we were open to our
complete greatness I mean we all want to
make change right but something is
missing something is missing
we are organizer we are advocates we the
people resist but something is missing
the unrealized power I want everyone to
repeat after me the unrealized power we
all have a vision of how we wish the
world could be when we think about
equity inclusion love patriotism and
civic engagement and today I’m going to
give you the secret of the change we all
wish to have our own realized power so
what is our unrealized power why is it
important how is it going to affect or
impact us these are the question that
I’m going to answer but first let me
tell you a little bit about myself I am
an international student from the
Democratic Republic of the Congo two
years ago I came to the United States of
America to study geology during my
journey here in the US I become
passionate about three things leadership
social justice and civic engagement
during last election in my school even
though I cannot vote I have registered
more than 2,000 students to vote so now
as an international student and a
student leader I felt very powerless
regarding the fear of the unknown and
the confusion of my friends and family
at the same time things were getting
intense here back home in Congo it was
the chaos and still a social chaos so I
start pondering questions and one
specifically come up a lot in my head
what can I do what can I do what can we
do as a society a part of what we have
always been doing
we implement real change you know there
are always two that spit in life in
everything that we do the visible and
the invisible aspects the visible is
something that you see something you can
measure the physical or direct impact of
it while the invisible is something that
you don’t see you don’t measure its
direct impact at the moment I’m looking
around and I can see that some of you
must wondering where am I going with
that but you will know when we talk
about changing our world speaking up and
standing up we usually associate them
with voting for testing debating but
what if it wasn’t just about that what
if there is another piece of the puzzle
and a visible part here is where the
concept of visible and invisible come
into play August 28 1963 Martin Luther
King jr. delivered I have a dream speech
that we all know during the great march
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom this
is an example of the visible concepts
the March itself and pitch the reason
why this is visible is because you can
see and measure the impact of the event
visible aspects but what you did not see
or maybe heard of is those two men
philip Randolph and by Austin they were
the first to start planning the March in
December in 1961 philip Randolph was one
of the leader of the civil right
movement and he was the head of the
march on Washington by a roaster and was
an American leader for in social
movement for civil right non-violence
and gay rights and he was the chief
organizer of the great march on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom and
visible aspects let’s take another
example February 11 1990 Nelson Mandela
is released from prison after spending
27 years behind bars for speaking up and
standing up against apartheid for those
of you who don’t know a part there was a
system of racial segregation
was a system of institutionalized racial
segregation and discrimination in South
Africa in 1994 for years leader Nelson
Mandela became the first black president
of South Africa this is also another
example of the visible aspects many of
you probably knew about this great
figure but what you did not know about
is this man Jorge business Jorge
business was a human right lawyer and he
was part of the team that defendants on
Mandela people say that he had Mandela
avoided the death penalty by having him
not appear to seek martyrdom and visible
aspects we can see that without those
invisible aspects the visible one
wouldn’t be possible think about me
right here I am the perfect example of
the visible aspects I mean I’m here
looking good you all get to listen to my
great speech and my first we probably go
on YouTube which is super cool but what
you did not see is the process behind
the hours of work with the organizing
team to have all of this happen we now
all have a better understanding of the
visible and a visible concept so what
happened when you applied those two
concepts with the concept of speaking up
and standing up for people here is what
happened the visible and invisible
aspects become the visible and invisible
power you see we all have the power of
speaking up and standing up against the
oppressor and for the oppressed on one
hand I define the visible power as what
we say speaking up is things such as
voting debating protesting lobbying and
on the other hand I define the visible
power as what speaking up would also be
things such as education researchers
community and relationship building
conversation
open – and self check today we can all
agree that voting debating and
protesting a great ways to speak up they
are effective powerful and legitimate so
what if in addition to voting
we added education and researchers we
need to be able to make our own research
on topic the matter focus and make sure
that solution propose a back up by facts
not eternity facts just fact when it
comes to voting we need to focus more on
ideas and policies rather than
candidates what if in addition to
protests we added community and
relationship building
let me explain myself in January 22nd
2017 we had the women’s models going on
in all over the country here in Portland
the police estimated 100,000 people
showed up to the women’s March which was
historical and amazing so now can you
imagine the impacts if everything one of
the people that attend the women’s March
this to give desire to donate $1 to
organization that habit read the living
condition of women or even better even
better if they volunteer one hour each
of the time to F women in the community
let’s just picture this 100,000 people
volunteer each of them one hour it will
be equal to 100,000 hours when you
divide it by 24 hours we get exactly
4166 days of community service which is
equal to eleven point four years of
community service eleven point four
years what if in addition to public
debates speeches we added something as
simple as a sincere dialogue or
conversation group of people with
opposite ideas trying to find a way to
get along with each other in November
23rd 2016
couple friend and I organized the
workout in my campus to support
undocumented student when we were doing
the the protest we had a group of
student that did a counter protest so
right after the protest we invite them
to a dialogue it was private intense and
sincere by the end of the conversation
we found common ground came up with
agreement and it was amazing we start
watching our more to them whenever we’re
organizing events you see that’s what
the invisible power is about and this is
how powerful our voice could also be
there is a time and a place to exercise
the visible power but the invisible
power is the one that can be expressed
every single day of our life sometimes
it can be as simple as a conversation
sometimes it can be as simple as a smile
in your face so now you all have the
knowledge and tools to make the power
that was once on realize a reality and
I’m going to leave you with that
sentence for us all of us to make
substantial changes we have to exercise
both the visible and the invisible power
you
[Music]
world I believe we were open to our
complete greatness I mean we all want to
make change right but something is
missing something is missing
we are organizer we are advocates we the
people resist but something is missing
the unrealized power I want everyone to
repeat after me the unrealized power we
all have a vision of how we wish the
world could be when we think about
equity inclusion love patriotism and
civic engagement and today I’m going to
give you the secret of the change we all
wish to have our own realized power so
what is our unrealized power why is it
important how is it going to affect or
impact us these are the question that
I’m going to answer but first let me
tell you a little bit about myself I am
an international student from the
Democratic Republic of the Congo two
years ago I came to the United States of
America to study geology during my
journey here in the US I become
passionate about three things leadership
social justice and civic engagement
during last election in my school even
though I cannot vote I have registered
more than 2,000 students to vote so now
as an international student and a
student leader I felt very powerless
regarding the fear of the unknown and
the confusion of my friends and family
at the same time things were getting
intense here back home in Congo it was
the chaos and still a social chaos so I
start pondering questions and one
specifically come up a lot in my head
what can I do what can I do what can we
do as a society a part of what we have
always been doing
we implement real change you know there
are always two that spit in life in
everything that we do the visible and
the invisible aspects the visible is
something that you see something you can
measure the physical or direct impact of
it while the invisible is something that
you don’t see you don’t measure its
direct impact at the moment I’m looking
around and I can see that some of you
must wondering where am I going with
that but you will know when we talk
about changing our world speaking up and
standing up we usually associate them
with voting for testing debating but
what if it wasn’t just about that what
if there is another piece of the puzzle
and a visible part here is where the
concept of visible and invisible come
into play August 28 1963 Martin Luther
King jr. delivered I have a dream speech
that we all know during the great march
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom this
is an example of the visible concepts
the March itself and pitch the reason
why this is visible is because you can
see and measure the impact of the event
visible aspects but what you did not see
or maybe heard of is those two men
philip Randolph and by Austin they were
the first to start planning the March in
December in 1961 philip Randolph was one
of the leader of the civil right
movement and he was the head of the
march on Washington by a roaster and was
an American leader for in social
movement for civil right non-violence
and gay rights and he was the chief
organizer of the great march on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom and
visible aspects let’s take another
example February 11 1990 Nelson Mandela
is released from prison after spending
27 years behind bars for speaking up and
standing up against apartheid for those
of you who don’t know a part there was a
system of racial segregation
was a system of institutionalized racial
segregation and discrimination in South
Africa in 1994 for years leader Nelson
Mandela became the first black president
of South Africa this is also another
example of the visible aspects many of
you probably knew about this great
figure but what you did not know about
is this man Jorge business Jorge
business was a human right lawyer and he
was part of the team that defendants on
Mandela people say that he had Mandela
avoided the death penalty by having him
not appear to seek martyrdom and visible
aspects we can see that without those
invisible aspects the visible one
wouldn’t be possible think about me
right here I am the perfect example of
the visible aspects I mean I’m here
looking good you all get to listen to my
great speech and my first we probably go
on YouTube which is super cool but what
you did not see is the process behind
the hours of work with the organizing
team to have all of this happen we now
all have a better understanding of the
visible and a visible concept so what
happened when you applied those two
concepts with the concept of speaking up
and standing up for people here is what
happened the visible and invisible
aspects become the visible and invisible
power you see we all have the power of
speaking up and standing up against the
oppressor and for the oppressed on one
hand I define the visible power as what
we say speaking up is things such as
voting debating protesting lobbying and
on the other hand I define the visible
power as what speaking up would also be
things such as education researchers
community and relationship building
conversation
open – and self check today we can all
agree that voting debating and
protesting a great ways to speak up they
are effective powerful and legitimate so
what if in addition to voting
we added education and researchers we
need to be able to make our own research
on topic the matter focus and make sure
that solution propose a back up by facts
not eternity facts just fact when it
comes to voting we need to focus more on
ideas and policies rather than
candidates what if in addition to
protests we added community and
relationship building
let me explain myself in January 22nd
2017 we had the women’s models going on
in all over the country here in Portland
the police estimated 100,000 people
showed up to the women’s March which was
historical and amazing so now can you
imagine the impacts if everything one of
the people that attend the women’s March
this to give desire to donate $1 to
organization that habit read the living
condition of women or even better even
better if they volunteer one hour each
of the time to F women in the community
let’s just picture this 100,000 people
volunteer each of them one hour it will
be equal to 100,000 hours when you
divide it by 24 hours we get exactly
4166 days of community service which is
equal to eleven point four years of
community service eleven point four
years what if in addition to public
debates speeches we added something as
simple as a sincere dialogue or
conversation group of people with
opposite ideas trying to find a way to
get along with each other in November
23rd 2016
couple friend and I organized the
workout in my campus to support
undocumented student when we were doing
the the protest we had a group of
student that did a counter protest so
right after the protest we invite them
to a dialogue it was private intense and
sincere by the end of the conversation
we found common ground came up with
agreement and it was amazing we start
watching our more to them whenever we’re
organizing events you see that’s what
the invisible power is about and this is
how powerful our voice could also be
there is a time and a place to exercise
the visible power but the invisible
power is the one that can be expressed
every single day of our life sometimes
it can be as simple as a conversation
sometimes it can be as simple as a smile
in your face so now you all have the
knowledge and tools to make the power
that was once on realize a reality and
I’m going to leave you with that
sentence for us all of us to make
substantial changes we have to exercise
both the visible and the invisible power
you
[Music]
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