This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
READ MORE Only 5 African-Americans run Fortune 500 firms. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. Blvd, Saturday, June 27, 2020, in Newark, N.J. A mural that reads “ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY” is painted on Dr.
And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”īut we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.