Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'
ML
Martin Luther King Jr.Sermon, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
About Martin Luther King Jr.
Baptist minister and leader of the American civil rights movement. (1929-1968)
More from Martin Luther King Jr.
- Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Loving Your Enemies sermon (1957), published in Strength to Love (1963)
- I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.I Have a Dream speech (1963)
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Strength to Love (1963)
- Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.The Drum Major Instinct sermon (1968)
- Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.Loving Your Enemies sermon (1957)
- The time is always right to do what's right.Address at Oberlin College (1964)
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- The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.John Lennon
- I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
- They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.Frida Kahlo
- I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.Frida Kahlo
- I dream for a living.Steven Spielberg
- Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.Zig Ziglar
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