A Martin Luther King speech you have probably not heard but should have

Erick Erickson resurfaces this gem.
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King’s “Street Sweeper” speech, which is more properly called “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life” was a variation of a theme he went back and forth to over the years. He gave this particular speech to New Covenant Baptist Church in Chicago, IL, on April 9, 1967.

It’s common title of “The Street Sweeper” speech comes from this passage:

What I’m saying to you this morning, my friends, even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; (Go ahead) sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.” 
If you can’t be a pine on the top of a hill 
Be a scrub in the valley—but be 
The best little scrub on the side of the hill, 
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. 
If you can’t be a highway just be a trail 
If you can’t be the sun be a star; 
It isn’t by size that you win or fail— 
Be the best of whatever you are. 
And when you do this, when you do this, you’ve mastered the length of life. (Yes)
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This is a message that needs to be repeated throughout this country.  It is one that you are not hearing from the greviance masters who make up the current civil rights movement.
 

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