“We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy; now is the time to make justice a reality for all God’s children.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., Aug. 28, 1963

This year marks 62 years since Dr. King spoke these words during his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington.

It was a transformative moment in time, primarily because it was the first time that an interracial coalition of such mammoth size had come together to challenge the nation’s racial grime.

His widow, Coretta Scott King, once said, “At that moment it seemed as if the kingdom of God appeared. But it only lasted for

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