The title of this post is taken from the famous “I Have A Dream” speech given by Reverend King at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. If you haven’t read it lately, I highly recommend you take a few minutes to read the entire thing. I consider it to be one of the great speeches of the English language. | |
There is ALWAYS a fierce urgency of NOW — for each of us. Life is all about the now. | |
— KMAB | |
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Archive for January 21st, 2013
The Fierce Urgency Of NOW
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Happy Inauguration Day!
Posted in My Journal, Politics, Quotes, tagged Inauguration Day, My Journal, Politics, Quotes, Sydney J. Harris, Woodrow Wilson on January 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »
[Two thoughts on today’s Inaugural celebrations…] | |
This not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication. Here muster not the forces of party, but the forces of Humanity… I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all forward-looking men to my side. God helping me, I will not fail them, if they will but counsel and sustain me! | |
— Woodrow Wilson | |
From his 1st Inaugural Address | |
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. | |
— Sydney J. Harris | |
[To the former: I stand at your side, Mr. President. To the latter: ask me again in Nov. 2014 and then again about a year after that… Until then, God Bless you, Mr. President and God Bless the United States of America! — KMAB] | |
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