Dr. King | Career Angles

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”

~Dr. Martin Luther King

We know about the man’s remarkable accomplishments and a few profound quotes that attributed to him.

We also know about his awful murder/assassination in Memphis. If you don’t, it’s time that you do. History will judge you poorly for your ignorance as it does others and ignorance of certain important events.

I was a teenager at that time and didn’t fully understand the depth of the man. I believe and understood the civil rights struggle that he led but didn’t know about the challenges or is depth and heart. Where I lived in New York, at that time, those are not in the newspapers I read.

I often write about the workplace, particularly on medium.com.

Part of what I like to write about is coping with the modern workplace’s despair and the compromises people make for their jobs.

We die a slow death when we become quiet at work.

I know I did when I worked in search. I often listened to people saying stupid, ignorant…