Labor for All

Mary L. Holden
1 min readNov 13, 2024

Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth. One day our society must come to see this. One day our society will come to respect the sanitation worker if it is to survive, for the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician, for if he doesn’t do his job, disease are rampant. All labor has dignity.
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Nelson Harding — https://archive.org/details/independent101v2newy/page/351, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79150032

Work of hygiene.
Toil of trouble.
All politics
grinds to rubble.

Turmoil macro
chaos micro
we’re going to need
one strong backhoe!

Labor Day is
every day now
for the low- and
for the highbrow!

It’s up to U.S.
and our believes
so get to work —
roll up your sleeves!

NOTE: And if by chance you are known to wear your heart on your sleeve, roll it up, too. Your feelings need to work, too. Let them become actions rooted in the best and highest good, truth, and beauty for yourself and everyone else. Thank you.

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Mary L. Holden
Mary L. Holden

Written by Mary L. Holden

A constantly evaporating editor and writer. Believer in medium since 2013 when they made me wait for an invitation….

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