The arc of the moral universe is snoring softly on the sofa with her paw over her nose, chasing squirrels in her sleep, because dreaming is better than reality at present.
@MelissaHDavis ... does anyone know the correct source for that? It's usually attributed to M.L. King Jr but it's older. Bunch of literary types here...
@DavidSalo @MelissaHDavis Thanks. I've seen that attribution. Cool.
“The arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
- Martin Luther Kimg
@b4cks4w @MelissaHDavis Theodore Parker, 1853, Unitarian Abolitionist Minister https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00008165
/nosanitize
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He's Taoist!
Everywhere in the world there is natural law, that is a constant mode of action, which seems to belong to the nature of things, to the constitution of the universe; Everywhere in the world there is a natural law, that is a constant
mode of action, which seems to belong to the nature of things, to the constitution of the universe; this fact is universal
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"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. ... But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice."
Theodore Parker, "Of Justice and the Conscience," 1853.