From the time capsule - October 26, 1967 - Just months before Martin Luther King, Junior met his end in Memphis, Tennessee, he addressed schoolchildren at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during a busy day of promotional appearances. He encouraged the students to think seriously about their future and career choices. King touched on several points during his 20-minute remarks but, as the son of man who ran a maintenance service most of his life in order to feed his family and send me to college, I found this segment about being the best you can be regardless of the work you do to be the most compelling...

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