Atlanta (CNN) Each year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day encourages Americans to come together and volunteer to improve their communities.

For some, this year's celebration is clouded by conflict, increasing racial division and deteriorating social circumstances. But the late civil rights leader's daughter Bernice King believes there is no better time to build community.

'The fierce urgency of now'

Bernice King also believes America needs his teaching more now than ever.

In "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" the last book written by King's father to be published in his lifetime, he wrote: "We are now faced 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."

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