The best poems by Martin Luther King

Politician, activist and pastor, born tuesday january 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia (United States), died thursday april 4, 1968 in Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee (United States)
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Posted by: Elisabetta
If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill,
be a shrub in the valley.
But be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a highway, just be a trail.
If you can't be a sun, be a star.
For it isn't by size that you win or fail.
Be the best of whatever you are.
Try to understand the picture
that you're drawn to be,
then start realizing it in your life.
Martin Luther King
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