A weathered wooden signpost has two blank arrows pointing right above a rocky mound in a violet twilight landscape.

Original artwork, not a still

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

There is no wrong time to do the right thing. The line challenges the excuse that good action should wait for a better moment. Doing what is right matters now, even when it is inconvenient.

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