Logo
If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed 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.

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Martin Luther King Day
category

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. – Bishop Desmond Tutu

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

If… the machine of government… is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. – Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobediance, 1849

Category:
Martin Luther King Day

Random Quotes

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game. – Alan Shearer

Category:
Failure

He didnt want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didnt name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with. – George Herbert Walker

Category:
relationship

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength. – Julio Iglesias

Category:
strength

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Love