Drum Major Quotes

• You only need a heart full of grace

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart   Greatness   Helping Others  

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press

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• We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Important   Want   Achieve  

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.212, Beacon Press

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• The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Issues   Life Is   Instinct  

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.217, Beacon Press

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• I just want to leave a committed life behind.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Want   Committed   Drum Major  

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.224, Beacon Press

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• 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's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Song   Cheer   Volunteer  

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.224, Beacon Press

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• Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

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  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise   Kings   Clothes  

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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. 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 of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice   Want   Matter  

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.224, Beacon Press

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• If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Greatness   Important   Definitions  

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.173, Beacon Press

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• I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Commitment   Justice   Want  

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.177, Beacon Press

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• Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in this morning, and I saw a little boy running after him, all the faculty children in the playing field ran after the boy, and I ran after them. This is a completely spontaneous, unstaged picture.

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  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Running   Morning   Children  

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• We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

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  Robert Benchley

  Men   Doors   Uniforms  

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Determination   Want   Fine  

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.224, Beacon Press

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