The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. ✨ Dr. M…

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The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. ✨ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream and Other Great Writings, p.217, Beacon Press
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