“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 to have a livable future, but to preserve the rights of all people to have any future at all.
“What we do – or don’t do – in responding to the “fierce urgency of now” will determine whether the children of our children’s children will look back at our response to Earth’s Call and say either “Thank you” or “How could you?” ~ Vince DiBianca in the Huffington Post
Let’s create a new story and make sure they say “Thank you!” Read how humanity is proactively responding….
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