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Thursday, January 22, 2015

All should be equal – v2

All should be equal
our creed, our promise
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
no matter their race, their gender,
their skin color, anything else,
we will be judged
by how we treat the others
those different, foreign
those unlike the majority
a nation of laws
built on the promise
of equal justice


edited January 21, 2015
All should be equal – v2

Edited January 22, 2013
new poem “All should be equal”
Edited January 22, 2013
new poem “Unfinished Work”
January 21, 2013
“Work still to do”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
and his final speech before his assassination
and Inauguration of the President
Barack Hussein Obama
Invocation
by Myrlie Evers-Williams
Inaugural Address
&
quote in the speech, “"Our journey is not complete until our
gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law"
&
&
several poems written in 2009
on the juxtaposition of the
80th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
and the inauguration of Barack Obama
as President of the United States of America

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