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.
Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.
Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
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