You will NEVER succeed if you don’t do this | Martin Luther King

and ask you a question and that is what
is in your life’s blueprint this is the
most important and crucial period of
your lives for what you do now and what
you decide now at this age may well
determine which way your life shall go
and whatever building is constructed you
usually have an architect who draws a
blueprint and that blueprint serves as
the pattern as the guy as the model for
those who are to build the buildings and
a building is not well erected without a
good sound and solid blueprint now each
of you is in the process of building the
structure of your lives and the question
is whether you have a proper a solid
and a sound blueprint and I want to
suggest some of the things that should
be in your life’s blueprint number one
in your life’s blueprint should be a
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deep belief in your own dignity your own
Worth and your own somebody nice don’t
allow anybody to make you feel that you
are nobody always feel that you count
always feel that you have Worth and
always feel that your life has ultimate
significance
don’t be ashamed of your color don’t be
ashamed of your biological features
somehow you must be able to say in your
own lives and really believe it I am
black but beautiful now in your life’s
blueprint be sure that you have there a
principle love somebody secondly in your
life’s blueprint you must have as a
basic principle the determination to
achieve excellence in your various
fields of endeavor you’re going to be
deciding as the days and the years
unfold what you will do in life what
your life’s work will be and once you
discover what it will be set out to do
it and to do it well and I say to you my
young friends that doors are opening to
each of you doors of opportunity opening
to each of you that were not open to
your mother’s and to your father’s and
the great challenge facing you is to be
ready to enter these doors as they open
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