REFLECTIONS

"Every[one] must decide whether he [or she] will walk in the light of
creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is
the
judgment. Life's most precious and urgent question is, What are you
doing
for others?"

"To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope. . Being a Negro in
America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to
hold
on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of
watching
your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies.
It
means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a
cripple. It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by
the
slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hated for being
an
orphan." Martin Luther King, Jr., "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or
Community?," 1967