- There's a moral arc in the Universe
- There's a common center of decency
- Injustice only illustrates right
- There's always a candle in the night
- In that eternal moment between moments,
- When ultimate truth is revealed
- Retribution walks the earth
- Brought about by human folly
- We have our choices to touch that arc
- But we cannot change the way it bends.
- Our choice is to stand on the side of justice
- Or burn ourselves as justice flashes our way.
- because "you shall reap what you sow!"
- So efforts at injustice flash and burn
- Men tell lies, and turn lies into myths
- But justice comes and burns them away.
- No lie can live forever,
- Because lies were never alive.
- And like a phoenix from the ashes truth is born anew.
- And like gold separated from dross, the truth shines and does not corrode.
- And our arc of justice is an ark for the righteous.
- Carrying the righteous through waves of destruction.
- Remember after the flood of destruction, a rainbow always shines.
- We dig our own holes and then we fall into them.
- But when the earthquake is over we either come again to stand tall.
- Or we sleep peacefully waiting for the end of time.
- Dr. Martin Luther King & reference to him in an event yesterday.
- http://www.open.salon.com/blog/arthur_howe/2009/01/18/the_arc_of_the_universe_is_long_but_it_bends_towards_justice
- "I know you are asking today, "How long will it take?"....
- "I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long,"
- because truth crushed to earth will rise again."
- "How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever."
- "How long? Not long, because you shall reap what you sow...."
- "How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
- The Salon Article then quotes, Theodore parker:
- Wikipedia
- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Parker
- "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."
- "In borrowing from Parker, Dr. King drew inspiration from a source that reaches back to our nation's birth."
- More from NPR:
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129609461
Inspiration:
The Salon Article author notes:
"Dr. King's words echo those of the 19th-century Unitarian minister Theodore Parker. In his 1853 sermon on "Justice and the Conscience," Parker declared:
And concludes
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