Quote#Self
Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive…
Quote byTheodore Parker · 1810–1860
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: III : Of Justice and the Conscience, This portion of Parker's sermon is thought to have inspired Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous assertion of similar sentiments: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice"..
English (original)
Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. 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.
— Theodore Parker
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