Martin Luther King Jr.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... 

We are faced now with the fact that tomorrow is today ... 
We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now ... 

In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late ...

We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage ... 
But time is deaf to every plea and rushes on ... 

Over the bleached bones ...
And jumbled residues of numerous civilizations ... 
Are written the pathetic words: 

TOO LATE