Read this excerpt from “I Have a Dream” and answer the question.
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 quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
Which of the following demonstrates one of the metaphors and its meaning in the above excerpt?
segregation = tranquilizing drug
segregation = sunlit path
racial justice = quick sands
racial justice = solid rock of brotherhood