The arc of the moral universe

Theodore Parker, 1853: „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 experience of sight. I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.”

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: „The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” she said, quoting Martin Luther King, Jr. But it only bends that way, she went on, “if there is a steadfast commitment to see the task through to completion.“

Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the dissent to Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013)