More than "I Have a Dream"

This is one of my favorite passages from this speech: 

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check that has come back marked "insufficient funds."
 But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice. 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 rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. 

I turned on the radio for the last piece of the Diane Rehm Show today.  There was a good conversation going on with Isabel Wilkerson (!), David Garrow, and Anthony Cook about how well the “bank of justice” is doing today.  I plan to go back and listen to the first part.  (The listening link isn't up yet, but I assume it will be there soon.)