The Post & Courier
As a nation, state and community, we find ourselves at a crossroads and a time of transition. Our nation’s history has seen transitions forward and transitions backward to times of oppression and injustice. To ensure forward motion, we need to anchor ourselves to ideals that elevate our moral center.
One such worthy ideal comes from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. During his speech at the National Cathedral on March 31, 1968, he said, “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” And from a more contemporary leader, Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama: “The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.”
As we consider the cornerstone on which to build a “more perfect union,” a moral center of “justice” seems appropriate. And there is no more critical a time than now for people of goodwill and moral conscience to assemble our collective capacities and do justice.