We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Topic

Civil rights Moral progress Progress Justice

Speaker

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution

Medium

Sermon

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Black activist Civil rights activist Clergyman Christian

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United States

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Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution." 31 Mar. 1968, National Cathedral, Washington, DC, USA. Sermon.

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Human contact seemed to her so frail a thing that the hope that two people might want each other in the same way, at the same time and with the possibility of doing something about it, seemed infinitely remote.

Margaret Drabble

The Waterfall

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Author

Margaret Drabble
Source
The Waterfall
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1969 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Drabble, Margaret. The Waterfall. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969.

Another quote about Justice

You know as well as we do that right, as the word goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Thucydides

History of the Peloponnesian War

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Justice Power relations Political theory

Author

Thucydides
Source
History of the Peloponnesian War
Genre
Historical literature
Language
Greek
Time
404 BC 400s BC 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 5.

Current Citation

Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 5.

Another quote of the following type Prophecies and predictions

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Topic
Dystopian future Totalitarianism The future
Speaker
O'Brien

Author

George Orwell
Source
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Medium
Novel
Genre
Dystopian fiction
Statement Type
Prophecies and predictions
Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 3, ch. 3.