Martin Luther King, Jr., "What Is Your Life's Blueprint?"

What Is Your Life's Blueprint What Is Your Life’s Blueprint? – Reflections on MLK Jr’s Speech

In this speech, Mr. King asks his audience, and all of us the simple question, “What Is Your Life’s Blueprint?”He asks us to reflect on our plan for our lives, and gives us some pointers to begin building our blueprint. And even though I’m closer to forty than to fourteen, I think these pointers are just as valid and valuable as they are to a young person setting out to build their adult life.

Mr. King makes two simple but important points to begin with. He says:

“Number one in your life’s blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness…”

“Secondly, in your life’s blueprint you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor.“