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“I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.”

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Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.”

Wise Kings Majors Clothes Gold Lace Shabby Drum Major

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.”

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Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.”

Ifs Want Important Wonderful Greatness Definitions Servant Drum Major

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.”

Men Nations Comedy Doors Majors Hotel Uniforms Hospitality Cab Drum Major

Book:Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

Source: Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces

“Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.”

Ifs Want Matter Justice Behinds Fine Majors Committed Righteousness Shallow Luxurious Drum Major

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.”

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Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.”

Life Is Issues Majors Instinct Harness Drum Major

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in this morning, and I saw a little boy running after him, all the faculty children in the playing field ran after the boy, and I ran after them. This is a completely spontaneous, unstaged picture.”

“I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.”

Want Behinds Fine Determination Committed Luxurious Drum Major

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“You only need a heart full of grace”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“I just want to leave a committed life behind.”

Want Behinds Committed Drum Major

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: