"On August 28, 1963, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered his iconic "I have a dream" speech, he invoked the phrase, "the fierce urgency of now." He was saying that the time had come for the human family to intervene in the complacency of the status quo and take action to address the wrongs of social injustice. "We too are living in a moment that calls for our own "fierce urgency." But this time it is not just to protect the rights of a people … Continue reading