"But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free…We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now."
That is a very important and now very famous line in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. It is used widely by our current President Barack Obama. It means to take action on something immediately. President John F. Kennedy addressed in his inaugural speech that he would do everything in his power to end racial discrimination. If you dissect the line, it showed a momentous change in history. Battles over racism were being fought and the fierce urgency of now He proposed the bill after seeing Martin Luther King Jr's. "I Have a Dream" speech. He really wanted to make a difference in ending racial discrimination. He proposed the Civil Rights Act in 1963. He proposed to Congress to consider voting rights, school desegregation, etc. to African Americans. After his assassination in November of 1963, his Vice President signed the bill on July 2nd, 1964, making it the official Civil Rights Act of 1964. "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long," Johnson told the lawmakers. "Let us close the springs of racial poison," he said.
That is a very important and now very famous line in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. It is used widely by our current President Barack Obama. It means to take action on something immediately. President John F. Kennedy addressed in his inaugural speech that he would do everything in his power to end racial discrimination. If you dissect the line, it showed a momentous change in history. Battles over racism were being fought and the fierce urgency of now He proposed the bill after seeing Martin Luther King Jr's. "I Have a Dream" speech. He really wanted to make a difference in ending racial discrimination. He proposed the Civil Rights Act in 1963. He proposed to Congress to consider voting rights, school desegregation, etc. to African Americans. After his assassination in November of 1963, his Vice President signed the bill on July 2nd, 1964, making it the official Civil Rights Act of 1964. "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long," Johnson told the lawmakers. "Let us close the springs of racial poison," he said.