If a man is called to be 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
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr, (Jan 15 1929-1968), US civil rights leader, clergyman; He eloquently led the non-violent Civil Rights movement, 1950-1968 and won the Nobel Prize, 1964.