Saturday, January 14, 2006

wasn't MLK Jr. awesome?!

"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 host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
-Martin Luther King Jr.