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Words of MLK

Mon, 19 Jan 2026, 03:45 PM (-06:00) Creative Commons License

If you don’t have anything nice to say, perhaps you shouldn’t say anything. Nevertheless…

The arc of the moral universe might bend toward justice, but that arc is evidently quite long [MLK speech, Unitarian origins]. I once lived in times in which its bending was manifest, but times have changed. 

Today plain spaces are made rough. The straight are made crooked. Valleys are filled, and hills and mountains raised [MLK speech, Isaiah 40:4-5 origins]. The twentieth century grows distant in the rear view mirror. The arc is bending the other way.

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