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 quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. –"I Have a Dream,"
Martin Luther King Jr.

What is the effect of the metaphor "sunlit path of racial justice”?

It suggests that there is a warm path people can take to make society equal.
It conveys that an equal society is a more hopeful society.
It communicates that society will be equal one day.