Hey podcast family, welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. The podcast that adds value to leaders who multiply value to others.

I'm Mark Cole and this week we are back with part two of John Maxwell's incredible lesson on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

If you missed part one, I challenge you, pause the button, go back and listen because there are some great wisdom nuggets that John gives us as we learn about transformation and a transformational leader.

Today there's even more. John completes his talk on Dr. King's life and leadership. Now remember he did this talk in front of Coretta Scott King and Bernice King and John shared five points.

Today we will finish up with the final three points on how leaders can create positive change in the world and in their community.

Once John is done, I will come back with my co-host Tracy Morrow and we're going to offer you some practical application that will help you implement the things you learned here into your own leadership.

If you would like to download the bonus resource, which is the fill in the blank worksheet from this lesson, please visit MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash MLK.

Click on the bonus resource button just below the show notes. All right, here we go. Here is John Maxwell.

Now we've seen there are two things so far that leaders do to create positive change. Number one, they listen, they lead by being led and number two, they communicate, they connect with others.

Number three, they persuade. In other words, they move others to action. Now how did Dr. King motivate people to act?

Number one, he placed events in context. He had the ability when he spoke to put all the events in context. Let me explain what I mean.

In your notes, doing so creates understanding as to why the movement is important and that in turn allows each individual to decide what the vision means to them personally.

Martin placed the American civil rights movement in the context of a much broader struggle. It wasn't just a group of people protesting for their civil rights.

It was a resumption of the incomplete revolution of the Civil War and it was the continuation of that noble journey toward the goals reflected in the Declaration of Independence, the preamble, the Constitution, the Constitution itself, the Bill of Rights, and the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments to the Constitution.

In fact, one of the things I noticed when I was doing research and reading about him that I just thought was powerful when he's talking about putting something in context. He liked to talk about Rip Van Winkle.

And he said the amazing thing, it's not that he slept for all those years, the amazing thing is he slept through a revolution.

And he kept telling the people, you don't want to do that. You don't want to be the Rip Van Winkle, you don't want to sleep through what is incredible in the change that's being created in our culture and society today.

Number two, how did he motivate people to act? The second thing he did is he appealed to the ethics and the morality of people.

Dr. Keen often portrayed the movement as just that. Not simply a conflict between white people and black people, but a struggle between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

In Martin's mind, it was a quest for freedom and human dignity. We no longer will be tolerant of anything less than our do right and heritage.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quick sand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

If America is to remain a first class nation, she can no longer have second class citizens. We must all learn to live together as brothers or will all perish as fools.

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