us upon demand theriches of freedom and security of justice. We have alsocome to his hallowed spot to remind America of the fierceurgency of Now. This is not time to engage in the luxury ofcooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy.Now it the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley ofsegregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now it the timeto lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to thesolid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice areality to all of God's children. I would be fatal for the nationto overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimatethe determination of it's colored citizens. This swelteringsummer of the colored people's legitimate discontent will notpass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom andequality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning.Those who hope that the colored Americans needed to blowoff steam and will now be content will have a rudeawakening if the nation returns to business as usual. Therewill be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the coloredcitizen is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds ofrevolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nationuntil the bright day of justice emerges. We can never besatisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue oftravel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways andthe hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as thecolored person's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to alarger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our childrenare stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity bysigns stating "for white only." We cannot be satisfied as longas a colored person in Mississippi cannot vote and a coloredperson in New York believes he has nothing for which tovote. No, no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfieduntil justice rolls down like waters and righte...
