‘This is a limerick for Dick Rowland, president emeritus of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, who turned 80 years old on March 16, 2010.’
‘There once was a guy named Dick’
‘Who thought being free was our pick’
‘He’d work night and day’
‘And had plenty to say’
‘About free choice being the trick’
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‘Dick wasn’t afraid to speak out’
‘Freedom was right, he would shout’
‘From the top of the walls’
‘Through the Capitol halls’
‘Liberty is a virtue to tout’
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‘Sometimes it was hard to believe’
‘What laws those in charge could conceive’
‘So fight them he must’
‘With gusto robust’
‘So that order we all can achieve’
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‘Dick argues against insane bills’
‘Like the one that divides all our hills’
‘Based on one’s race’
‘It’s such a disgrace’
‘”Indivisible”