Lesra Martin is a Canadianlawyer and motivational speaker. He is known for helping to bring about the release of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. Canada is the second largest and the northern-most country in the world, occupying most of the North American land mass. ... For information on the type of fish called Lawyer, see the article on Burbot. ... Rubin Hurricane Carter (born May 6, 1937), middleweight boxer from 1961 - 1966, is better known for his controversial convictions (1967, 1976) for the murder of three people at the Lafayette Grill in June, 1966, and his subsequent release from prison (1985). ...
LesraMartin, whose triumph over poverty, illiteracy and injustice was chronicled in the Oscar-nominated 1999 film "The Hurricane," urged an audience at Bridgewater State College to embrace the power of the individual to change a destiny.
Martin was a functionally illiterate teenager in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood when he befriended a group of Canadians who took him to Toronto, with his parents' approval, and provided for his education.
Martin closed by inviting audience members to embrace three promises: that they would not be deterred by difficulty, that they would understand there is nothing they can't accomplish if they believe, and that they would be ready to act when opportunity knocks.
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