"Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. Yet that scaffold sways the future And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadows, Keeping watch above his own."
— Throne

January 1, 1970

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James Russell Lowell in: Martin Luther King (Jr.), et al., The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr: Threshold of a new decade, January 1959-December 1960, University of California Press, 1 January 2005, p. 413.