Two pronouncements by Martin Luther King Jr. are familiar. In the first, he dreams that his children “will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

In another, adapted from Theodore Parker, a 19th-century abolitionist preacher, Dr. King points to another aspect of his dream. King writes, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

The first quote points to individual behavior, the second toward social action. Dr. King didn’t emphasize one approach over the other. For him, personal and social morality were of a piece. A good world is one that is both kind and just.

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