Another view on selfishness that is almost the exact opposite of Rand’s is martin Luther king Jr. He truly devoted his life to the belter of others. He spent a majority of his life’s work to get all of the African Americans the same rights as the whites because he believed that the two races were equal in all views the only difference was the color of their skin. He was the leader of the civil rights movement in the sixties and not because he did it for selfish reasons but because he was asked to because the people thought he was a good leader and public speaker and they were right. Dr. King wrote an essay on what he calls the drum major instinct. He