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 open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. 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 tranquilising drug of gradualism.Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963).
Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.Richard Feynman, letter to his wife Gweneth, written while attending a gravity conference in Communist-era Warsaw in 1963, contained in "Letters, Photos, and Drawings," What Do You Care What Other People Think (pp.But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity-and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand. The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis.
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