Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
547
AUTHOR:
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68)
QUOTATION:
Free at last, free at last Thank God almighty We are free at last
ATTRIBUTION:
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., epitaph, South View Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia.
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.
