Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
Interpretation
Everyone has the potential for greatness through service to others.
This quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. emphasizes the idea that greatness is not reserved for a select few, but is accessible to everyone through the act of serving others. It highlights the importance of having a generous spirit and the right intentions, suggesting that true fulfillment comes from selflessness and compassion.
In practice
This quote can be used during a community service event to motivate volunteers.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.
Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory
I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.
I have always drawn strength from my late mother's life. When Eunice Johnson set up the first major fashion show for African-American audiences more than 50 years ago, she did so at a time when black Americans, especially black women, were still fighting for a seat at the table - any table.
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