Ever get tired of people saying that one person can not make a difference? Well I am! So this year I am going back in history and being inspired by every day people whose every day actions have made a very big difference and have left a legacy for us all to be inspired by!
One brave girl wrote a diary, seems like a simple every day act, but just think what the world would have missed out on if she had not! One man fought tirelessly for the Sequoia and much more.... these trees would have become toothpicks if he had not had the foresight to protect them, and one lady just stayed seated on a bus and started a much needed revolution!
Be inspired as I have been and do not believe it for a moment when someone says you can not make a difference.....History shows otherwise!
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Cesar Chavez inspired necklace~
"Si Se Puede"----Cesar Chavez
César Estrada Chávez ; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW).
A Mexican American, Chávez became the best known Latino civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement, which was eager to enroll Hispanic members. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. By the late 1970s, his tactics had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for 50,000 field workers in California and Florida. However, by the mid-1980s membership in the UFW had dwindled to around 15,000.
Chávez was a vegan because he believed in animal rights and also for his health.
After his death he became a major historical icon for the Latino community, and for liberals generally, symbolizing militant support for workers and for Hispanic power based on grass roots organizing and his slogan "Sí se puede" (Spanish for "Yes it is possible" or, roughly, "Yes it can be done"). His supporters say his work led to numerous improvements for union laborers. His birthday, March 31, has become César Chávez Day, a state holiday in three US states. Many parks, cultural centers, libraries, schools, and streets have been named in his honor in cities across the United States.
Cesar Chavez inspired necklace is handmade out of recycled aluminum which is a very lightweight metal! It is handstamped on front "Si se puede" on Front, which is spanish for "Yes it is possible" or "Yes it can be done" on the back it is stamped "Cesar Chavez" comes on 2.2 mm sterling silver cable chain and is 18" in length
Due to the handmade nature this may vary slightly from image
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John Muir Inspired necklace~
"The Sun Shines Not on Us but in Us"-------John Muir
John Muir (21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American Naturalist author, and early advocate of preservation of United States (US) wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequioa National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. One of the most well-known hiking trails in the US, the 211-mile John Muir Trail , was named in his honor. In his later life, Muir devoted most of his time to the preservation of the Western forests. He petitioned the U.S Congress for the National Park Bill that was passed in 1899, establishing both Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. It was due to the spiritual quality and enthusiasm toward nature which he expressed in his writings that he was able to inspire his readers, including presidents and congressmen, to take action to help preserve large nature areas.
Muir was noted for being an ecological thinker, political spokesman, and religious prophet, whose writings became a personal guide into nature for countless individuals, making his name "almost ubiquitous" in the modern environmental consciousness.
This pendant hand sawn out of recycled aluminum, which is a very lightweight metal! It is handstamped with John Muir's words "The Sun shines not on us but in us" comes with a 18" 2.2 mm sterling silver flat cable chain
Due to the handmade nature this item may vary slightly from image
"Each Person Must Live as a Model for Others" -------Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American Civil rights activist whom the U. S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement."
On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Her action was not the first of its kind: Irene Morgan in 1946, and Sarah Louise Keys, in 1955, had won rulings before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Interstate Commerce Commission respectively in the area of interstate bus travel. Nine months before Parks refused to give up her seat, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to move from her seat on the same bus system. But unlike these previous individual actions of Civil disobedience, Parks' action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system.
The boycott resulted in a crippling financial deficit for the Montgomery public transit system, because the city's black population who were the drivers of the boycott were also the bulk of the system's ridership.
Pendant is hand sawn out of recycled aluminum which is a very lightweight metal! It is hand stamped with Rosa's words "Each Person must live as a Model for others" Comes on a 18" 2.2 mm sterling silver flat cable chain.
Due to the handmade nature this item may vary slightly from image
" I do not think of all the misery but the beauty that remains" --------Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank Born June 12, 1929 was a Jewish girl who lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. By nationality, she was officially considered a German until 1941, when she lost her nationality owing to the anti-Semitic policies of Nazi Germany. She gained international fame posthumously following the publication of her diary which documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War 11. Anne and her family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the same year as the Nazis gained power in Germany. By the beginning of 1940 they were trapped in Amsterdam due to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. As persecutions of the Jewish population increased in July 1942, the family went into hiding in the hidden rooms of her father Otto Frank's office building. After two years, the group was betrayed and transported to concentration camps. Seven months after her arrest, Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp within days of the death of her sister, Margot Frank. Her father Otto, the only survivor of the family, returned to Amsterdam after the war to find that her diary had been saved, and his efforts led to its publication in 1947. It was translated from its original Dutch and first published in English in 1952 as The Diary of a Young girl.
Anne Frank inspired pendant is hand sawn out of recycled aluminum, which is a very lightweight metal! Handstamped with a quote from Anne : "I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that remains"
Comes on a 18" sterling silver 2.2 mm chain with lobster clasp
Due to the handmade nature this item may vary slightly from image
Added note: If you have not read the Diary of Anne Frank I strongly advise that you do. I put it off for a long time because I thought it would be depressing. And it is very heavy subject matter and certainly very sad but it is so moving and life changing that it is so worth what you take away from it in the end. Anne was a very gifted writer for her age and had wisdom far beyond her years. Her optimism and bravery in the face of the horrors going on around her is truly amazing and awe inspiring. It reminded me that there are many sides to all issues and that we all have the CHOICE to view the world and all life's situations from a positive angle or a negative angle. Anne chose to view the positive ....we all have this ability if only we are brave enough make that choice. Read it and see what it inspires you to do!!!
