A Great Man of Peace and Justice - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today

"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.

Indeed it is our lives and actions today that continue to MAKE a Difference.

===Let Peace Begin On Earth===

===And Let it Begin with Me. ===

I first heard this song in Wilmington Delaware in 1970 at Gray Elementary School

and it touched my heart and changed my life.

It was this experience with inner-city schools and the children who live there

that planted the seeds of non-violence firmly in my heart.

This many years later.

I see some changes. I some improvements. I see some losses.

And yet... the hope for the future has not failed...

it simply requires more people working for peace

by living with hearts of justice and compassion.

One day at a time.