"Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve."
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said:
"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... The thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody 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 don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know that second theory of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant."
Those words were said by Martin Luther King, in hopes that people would come together, regard less of skin color or race, and treat each other the way they would want to be treated. We have come a long way since African-Americans were discriminated, and we owe a lot of that to Dr. Martin Luther King. I dedicate this webpage to Martin Luther King, Jr.
