arc of history

短语

词形变化

the arc of history arcs of history 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The idea that history has a direction or purpose that “bends” (or can be bent) towards some goal.

词源

Popularized by Barack Obama, and based on an older metaphor by abolitionist Theodore Parker, later popularized by Martin Luther King Jr.: “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”.

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