Profound words
This afternoon we gather in the quiet of this sanctuary to pay our last tribute of respect to these beautiful children of God. They entered the stage of history just a few years ago, and in the brief years that they were privileged to act on this mortal stage, they played their parts exceedingly well. Now the curtain falls; they move through the exit; the drama of their earthly life comes to a close. They are now committed back to that eternity from which they came. These children -- unoffending; innocent and beautiful -- were the victims of one of the most heinous crimes ever perpetrated against humanity. Yet they died nobly. They are the martyred heroines of a holy crusade for freedom and human dignity. So they have something to say to us in their death. Their death says to us that we must work passionately and unrelentingly to make the American dream a reality."
"Dr. Martin Luther King at funeral for girls in Birmingham"
