“Number one in your life’s blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness. Don’t allow anybody to make you feel that you’re nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that you’re life has ultimate significance.”

Bron: rede Maarten Luther King voor leerlingen van de Baratt Junior Highschool in Philadelphia op 26-10-’67: “If it falls to your lot to be a streetsweeper, 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 lives a great sweeper, who swept his job well’.”