arc of history

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The idea that history has a direction or purpose that “bends” (or can be bent) towards some goal.
    — If Jim Yong Kim wants to ‘bend the arc of history’, he should start by addressing long-standing inequalities in his own organisation[.]

词形变化

the arc of history canonical arcs of history plural

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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