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: | 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 |