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.
And this morning, 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 the second
theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.
You only need a heart full of
grace, a soul generated by love.
And you can be that servant.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Drum Major Instinct sermon, February 4, 1968
