Inspiration:

 

What would need to shift inside yourself in order for you to bend the world toward justice?

Bending the World Toward Justice

I think about the quote from the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,”…the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.” Most people like to end the quote there but another classmate and friend of mine, Cecilia Runge, once reminded me, the rest of the quote is critically important: “It bends towards justice, but here is the thing: it does not bend on its own. It bends because each of us in our own ways put our hand on that arc and we bend it in the direction of justice…”

The moral arc of the universe doesn’t bend itself towards justice. If we miss the opportunities around us, surely the forces of capitalism and culture will bend that arc in another direction; those forces are guided by many things, but love I do not think is one of them.

by Lena Gardner TO READ MORE