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The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nikki Giovanni

His headstone said
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST
But death is a slave’s freedom
We seek the freedom of free men
And the construction of a world
Where Martin Luther King could have lived
and preached non-violence.




Quotes of the Day

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson


Poems of the Day
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    The Plough Of Time
    by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    Night closed my windows and The sky became a crystal house The crystal windows glowed The moon shown through them through the whole house of crystal A single star beamed down its crystal cable