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.
To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
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