We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy, and transform our pending national elegy into a
creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial
injustice to the solid rock of human dignity
6. Remember that the clergymen King is writing to had called his protests "unwise" and "untimely."
In this paragraph, King says it's always the right time for justice. Why does Dr. King wait until this
point in the letter to say this? Why not say it first? What needed to be explained/felt first?