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Nov 15, 2012 · “We must believe that the arc of the universe is long, but that it bends toward justice, toward one Divine end towards which creation moves onward and onward, forever.” In 1940 a version was included in a New Year’s message by Rabbi Jacob Kohn in Los Angeles.
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” is King’s clever paraphrasing of a portion of a sermon delivered in 1853 by the abolitionist minister Theodore Parker.
We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” Speech given at the National Cathedral, March 31, 1968.
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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 the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
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Mar 24, 2018 · "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." Like a number of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s most famous pronouncements, that proclamation was, itself, a quotation....
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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” They bent it faster. Watch on Netflix
Jan 15, 2017 · And then he answered his own question, paraphrasing abolitionist Theodore Parker: “Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” Dr. King believed in the collective power of individual action, that it could propel us forward along the arc toward equality.
