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.
Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.
No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.
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