"We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy."
--M.L. King Jr., 28 August 1963
Now is fiercely the time
to make real the always
urgent mountaintop dream
of helping America
keep its palace-of-justice
promises that were built
on the unfulfilled content
of the City-on-the-Hill
character that cries
My country, because of thee
I sing let freedom ring
in an always timely
and timelessly raging
and ringing dreamtime that
America some day will fulfill
its promissory promises
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