MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

" 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..."

"The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968