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WORK:  All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

LEADERSHIP:  A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

ETHICS:  Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.  The time is always right to do what is right.

SERVICE:  Life’s most persistent and urgent question is:  “What are you doing for others?” 

JUSTICE:  Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

VALUES:  If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values — that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:  Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION:  Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.  The foundation of such a method is love.  Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

THE END OF DISCRIMINATION:  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

VISION & PERSEVERANCE:  I just want to do God’s will.  And He’s allowed me to go to the mountain.  And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land!  I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.  (From Dr. King’s final speech the night before his assassination)

WORK:  All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

LEADERSHIP:  A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

ETHICS:  Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.  The time is always right to do what is right.

SERVICE:  Life’s most persistent and urgent question is:  “What are you doing for others?” 

JUSTICE:  Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.  We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.  Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

VALUES:  If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values — that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:  Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION:  Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation.  The foundation of such a method is love.  Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

VISION & PERSEVERANCE:  I just want to do God’s will.  And He’s allowed me to go to the mountain.  And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land!  I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.  (From Dr. King’s final speech the night before his assassination)