14 Personal Manifesto
The word “Manifesto” comes from the Latin manifest, which means to make visible or to reveal. Party political manifestos are the most widely known, but there are far more inspiring examples. One of the most famous is The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, but others include the Sermon on the Mount, the United States Declaration of Independence and speeches such as Churchill’s “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”. Because of their power to provoke change, manifestos are often embraced by revolutionaries and politicians, but they work in any setting and you don’t have to be Karl Marx to write a manifesto.1
A personal manifesto is a statement ...
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