arc of history

== English == === Etymology === 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”. === Noun === the arc of history (plural arcs of history) The idea that history has a direction or purpose that “bends” (or can be bent) towards some goal. ==== See also ==== end of history Whig history story arc === References ===