Martin Luther King Jr.: If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as…
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or as Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause and say, 'Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well.'
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- What Is Your Life's Blueprint?, Barratt Junior High School, Philadelphia, 26 October 1967
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