If it falls your lot to sweep streets in life, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures. Sweep streets like Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: “Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well.”
Martin Luther King jr. – American civil rights activist and pastor, Nobel Peace Prize 1964 (1929-1968), from his speech “Facing the Challenge of A New Age” from January 1st, 1957, quotes his mentor Dr. Benjamin Mays from the Morehouse College (1894-1984), Quotations book 2012