Even though today is the official national holiday celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday, he actually would have turned 85 on January 15 had he not been assassinated back in April of 1968 and instead survived through the subsequent years. Known chiefly for his important contributions to our national civil rights movement as well as being a worldwide inspiration for his advocacy of human rights, Reverend King also had much to say about life in general...and what makes up a life truly worth living. He encouraged people, regardless of their socioeconomic station in life, to take pride in their work and not demean it with a sense of inferiority or succumb to how others may look upon it. Here are a couple of quotes of his in this regard, which I gleaned off of the Brainy Quotes website:
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
and...
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
I think that's a pretty wise way to look at things...
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