The Clog from OzMartin Luther King, Jr - If a Man is a Streetsweeper
October 3rd 2006 03:01
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most famous leader of the American civil rights movement gave many profound quotes like this one, and his most well-known; “I Have a Dream” speech. He finished up this address with;
“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Some facts about Martin Luther King, Jr:
• His birth records indicate that his name is Michael
• "Long Way To Go" By Gwen Stefani and Andre 3000 refer to King, with extracts from his "I Have a Dream" speech
• A 2005 televised call-in poll identified King as the third greatest American, following Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln
• King was assassinated at 6:01 p.m. April 4, 1968, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Friends inside the motel room heard the shots and ran to the balcony to find King shot in the throat.
• The assassination led to a nationwide wave of riots in more than 60 cities. Five days later, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a national day of mourning for the lost civil rights leader. A crowd of 300,000 attended his funeral that same day.
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The most famous leader of the American civil rights movement gave many profound quotes like this one, and his most well-known; “I Have a Dream” speech. He finished up this address with;
“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Some facts about Martin Luther King, Jr:
• His birth records indicate that his name is Michael
• "Long Way To Go" By Gwen Stefani and Andre 3000 refer to King, with extracts from his "I Have a Dream" speech
• A 2005 televised call-in poll identified King as the third greatest American, following Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln
• King was assassinated at 6:01 p.m. April 4, 1968, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Friends inside the motel room heard the shots and ran to the balcony to find King shot in the throat.
• The assassination led to a nationwide wave of riots in more than 60 cities. Five days later, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a national day of mourning for the lost civil rights leader. A crowd of 300,000 attended his funeral that same day.
Image in Public Domain
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