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Does a dream deferred for over 50 years meant that it is dead? Now is the time is a quote taken from King’s dream speech and is apt in concluding this book. The many issues that were presented throughout, demonstrated that the more things change, the more they seem to remain the same. If there is a real commitment by the government to enable equality and social change, it needs to happen now. Segregation should no longer consume our thoughts and battles, but equity should be enabled through separate and equal facilities where education is alive and accessible through a curriculum that brings hope to all. During the 1960s King stated that to deny education and equality to all requires a recognition that someone is profiting; in this case the death of slavery gave birth to mass incarceration. White supremacy and their failure to enable the liberation of people of colour from the perpetual chains of social exclusion, poverty and lack. “Now is the time to make justice a reality for all God’s children” (King 1963).
The hope of the world is still in the dedicated minorities. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority.
Martin Luther King
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Herbert, A. (2016). Now Is the Time for Change. In: Martin Luther King . SpringerBriefs in Education(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39235-6_6
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