"Whenever you are engaged in work that..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth.
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“Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.”
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
“They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”
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“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
“Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.”
“You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.”
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“In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.”
“To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.”
“In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.”