All should be equal

the mantra, the challenge

the words in his speech

that all should be equal

to follow our creed

none should be left out

all have value

we will be judged

by how we treat the others

those different, foreign

those unlike the majority

a nation of laws

built on equal justice

Edited January 22, 2013

new poem “All should be equal”

Edited January 22, 2013

new poem “Unfinished Work”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/unfinished-work.html

January 21, 2013

“Work still to do”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/work-still-to-do.html

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

and his final speech before his assassination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oehry1JC9Rk&feature=youtu.be

and Inauguration of the President

Barack Hussein Obama

Invocation

by Myrlie Evers-Williams

http://bcove.me/ugv9l9qy

Inaugural Address

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/president-barack-obamas-2013-inaugural-address-full-text-86497.html

&

quote in the speech, “"Our journey is not complete until our

gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law"”

https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/293404632171048962/photo/1

&

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/01/not-just-dream-reality.html

&

several poems written in 2009

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Martin%20Luther%20King

on the juxtaposition of the

80^th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

and the inauguration of Barack Obama

as President of the United States of America

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