The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
Interpretation
The journey towards justice takes time, but ultimately, justice prevails.
This quote suggests that although the path to achieving justice may be lengthy and fraught with challenges, the overarching trend of humanity is toward moral righteousness and fairness. It reflects a hopeful and optimistic view of societal progress, implying that persistent efforts in the pursuit of justice will eventually lead to positive outcomes.
In practice
During a motivational speech about social justice initiatives.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.
Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.