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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"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. Say that
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 in life to leave behind. But I just want
to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say. 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 is traveling wrong, then my living will
not be in vain."
Excerpted from "The Drum Major Instinct", a sermon by Rev.
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968. Available on CD and print in A Knock
At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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