
(1929–1968)
U.S. clergyman, activist, and civil rights leader“If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will have to pause and say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well.'”
more infosource: “Facing the Challenge of a New Age,” in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 139.
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Martin Luther King, Jr