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Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
—Dick Gregory
ballade
A type of poem, usually with three stanzas of seven, eight, or ten lines and a shorter final stanza (or envoy) of four or five lines. All stanzas end with the same one-line refrain.