I have always liked Martin Luther King, Jr.’s quote:
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”
This is King’s statement akin to an 1853 sermon text from abolitionist Theodore Parker, who said:
“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one. My eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by experience of sight. I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see, I am sure it bends toward justice.”
I relate more to Parker’s longer version as it exposes the sentiment as it seems to me less of a certainty, more of a hope. But of course that sureness is what made King, King. In the face of George Wallace, Lester Maddox, the Ku Klux Klan, Bull Connor, and what was waiting on the other side of the Pettus Bridge in Selma, King placed absolute trust not only in the existence but also the righteousness of a Higher Power.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”
It occurs to me... 