The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution, 1968

I’d heard the quote before but didn’t know when King said it. A mention in The Book of Joy prompted me to look it up, he seems to have said it first during a speech given at Stanford in 1967 title The Other America.

You can read the full transcript here or listen to the audio below,