Today is
celebrated as Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States. Various local businesses
are holding events in my area in honor of the civil rights activist, Dr. King.
The University of Michigan is hosting lectures, our local library is showing
the movie Selma, and the Ministerial
Alliance has organized a walk and keynote speaker.
As I walked
through the children’s section of my local library, I noticed a table with arts
and craft supplies spread out. There were cut-outs of small hand in bright
colors, pencils, and a large sheet of white butcher paper. A lone sentence
scrawled across the top of the paper read, what
is your dream?
With a chuckle
in my voice I asked the librarian, “Can I write my dream on one of the hands?”
“Sure,” she
said.
I scribbled
down my one sentence dream and taped it to the board that was started to hold
all of the dreams. The concept was simple, to encourage youth to explore their dream(s).
It gave them the opportunity to put their prized thoughts on paper, to begin to
visualize their dream.
Below are
inspiring quotes by Dr. King.
HELPING OTHERS
“We are prone to judge success by the
index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the
quality of our service and relationship to humanity.”
OPTIMSM
“Faith is taking the first step, even
when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
CHARACTER
“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.”
HELPING OTHERS
“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 verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace and soul generated by love.”
HARD WORK
“If a man is
called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michael Angelo
painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should
sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
Dr. King had
a dream. What is your dream? Take time to reflect.
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