Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 547 |
AUTHOR: | Martin Luther King, Jr. (192968) |
QUOTATION: | Free at last, free at last Thank God almighty We are free at last |
ATTRIBUTION: | King was buried on a site adjoining Ebenezer Baptist Church. He had quoted these words from a Negro spiritual to end his I Have a Dream speech given during the march on Washington, August 28, 1963, Washington, D.C.Coretta Scott King, The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., p. 98 (1984). See No. 462 for a quotation from the I Have a Dream speech. |
SUBJECTS: | Epitaphs |