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Heroes are role models. That doesn't mean it's okay to just admire them. It means we're supposed to copy them, learn from them, install their greatest rules, values and beliefs in ourselves. Practically everything in this world costs money, but Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s rules, values and beliefs are free for the taking. They're in our schools, our libraries and sprinkled generously all over the net. They're free to everyone. What is just one of his rules worth? More or less than a pair of Air Jordans? Yet so many strain for the shoes and leave the healthiest foundations for humanity sitting on the shelf. Free. They're free. Surely only fools fail to take some to keep. Surely only fools ONLY admire them.
Here are some of my favorite Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes and links to enjoy, admire and install:
- Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
- We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
- If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
- Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- The time is always right to do what is right.
- Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?
- We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- Compassion and non-violence help us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.
- MLK Online
- The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
- A LIFE Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The King Center
- "I Have a Dream," Address at March on Washington
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
- I've Been to the Mountaintop
- Twenty beautiful Martin Luther King, Jr. quote wallpapers by Colleen
Everyone has personal stories to share concerning their feelings about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This is mine:
It was a saturday in 1983, when my daughter Christie was ten years old. We were watching a documentary about the sixties and she turned to me at the commercial break and said, "That documentary is wrong. That stuff didn't really happen!"
When I asked her what she meant, she said, "The police getting dogs after black people in the streets, beating them, separate schools, drinking fountains, people not being able to buy a meal cause they're black.... that's ridiculous! That never really happened! That couldn't have happened!"
I couldn't answer for a moment. I was overcome with gratitude to be able to see just how far we had come; that a child could be incredulous at the insanity of a rage built on the absolute ignorance of prejudice. She couldn't believe we'd ever been that monstrous or stupid. Then I was overcome with the horrible reality I had to share with her, "Yes, yes indeed we were that bad. It was like an epidimic of stupidity and cruelty the like of which you truly cannot imagine. But it was real. Everything they're saying was the truth. And listen now, there's Martin Luther King, Jr."
We both watched and listened. At the next commercial I explained to her that he was a great recipe. Wisdom plus action equals healing. As I said it, I felt the pull inside to do something good for my world. And there was MLK on the screen again, filling it up, his eyes commanding and questioning as always..... "Get up! What are you doing for others?" And I ran from it, hid myself well in my admiration; soothed my lifetime of laziness with it. But eventually, Thank God, admiration was no longer enough. His challenge took hold then and I suppose will never let go.
I'm convinced if every one of us had to look at pictures of just his eyes, five or six times a day, all of us would be reaching out, giving more to serve our world and creator. I don't know, maybe not. What the heck, if you're not already serving, put the wallpaper up for a while and just see. I loved his wisdom and oratory, but it was his eyes that moved me to work. Now I find myself wondering... did he plan it that way? Was he always thinking directly into the camera, "What are you doing for others?" to prod us long beyond his own lifetime? It wouldn't surprise me. Snapshots of wisdom in action.
"The mind, once stretched by an empowering idea,
can never fully shrink to its original dimensions."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, paraphrased
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