All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Interpretation
All work that benefits humanity is valuable and deserves to be done well.
This quote by Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizes the intrinsic value of all forms of labor that contribute to the betterment of society. It highlights the importance of approaching all work with a sense of dignity and a commitment to excellence, suggesting that our efforts can uplift humanity and should be performed with pride, regardless of the nature of the task.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one might say, 'As Martin Luther King Jr. wisely noted, all labor that uplifts humanity has dignity.'
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.
You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are afraid. You can't entertain a man who has no food.
I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.
You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
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