 This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Phrase talked a third of the way through Dr. King's famous speech. A call to action to rebuke those grown lazy. But have we heeded it? Or have actions in Ferguson and beyond shown that the passions were civil rights in the 60s of cool. Returning from a 10-day trip to Israel Palestine and seeing the injustice there reminds me that there's a whole world for whom those of us in privilege have indulged that luxury of cooling off and ignoring justice. Let this reminder move us from a dream of peace to a reality of justice.