Did you know that on the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King engaged in a pillow fight in his motel room? It makes me smile to think about him smiling; and it also makes me wonder what more I can do to honor this Great Man — what more I can do in my life right now to defeat the forces of callousness & tyranny & injustice that still confine & torture so many, and that still threaten to confine & torture so many more.

“Almost always, it has been the bold and dedicated minority that has made the world better … It is true that every one of us can be great because every one of us 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 only need a heart full of grace; a soul generated by Love … Indeed, you have not started truly living until you can rise above the narrow confines of your individualistic concerns to serve the broader concerns of all beings … He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it … Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that … Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love … Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him  … Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness … Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you currently doing for others? … The time is always right to do the right thing ” ~ inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.

 

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