Here's another 140 words I agree with from Tavis Smiley, Doing What's Right:
What made John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., so special is that through their leadership they inspired all of us to believe we, too, could make a difference. "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country," John F. Kennedy exhorted us in his inaugural address. Martin Luther King said, "Anybody can be great, because anybody can serve. All it takes is a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love."
The great children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman once said, "Service is the price we pay for the space we occupy." It is the act of fighting for a cause in which you believe, feeling that through your efforts you are making a contribution.
