The Arc Of The Moral Universe Is Long But It Bends Towards Justice

Martin Luther King once said, “ The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” This quote portrays that morality is something that even the naked eye can’t see. Morality must be expressed through feelings in order for people to be able to appreciate and understand it. Morality will always be a superior to nullify immorality and injustice. No matter how difficult to understand morality, it will always lead to the truth and justice to people. The idea of morality will always be true because at the end of all the struggles, the “good” will always prevail against anything that people face. No matter how much evil has influence people minds, the “good” will always be there to save people from going down the wrong path. In
the book, 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose, the jury consist people of different status in life. The jurors all have different perspective on the definition of life. Out of all of the jurors, Juror 8th has the most pure morality. Juror 8th voted not guilty for the decision of the jurors because he was not convinced that the kid was able to kill his father due to the lack of solid evidence that the persecuting lawyer has portrayed to the court. Juror 8th tried to put his own foot in the kids shoes to be able to understand what the kid was experiencing from his abusive father. Juror 8th wants to prevent the kid from being executed in an electric chair. Juror 8th decisions proves his pure conscience toward people no matter where they came from. On the other hand, Juror 3rd believes that the kid was guilty because of what he experience toward his own son. Juror 3rd decision has been influenced by the evil feelings that he gains from his conflict with his son, concluding to the point that he put his hands on his own son. This experienced influenced Juror 3rd to believe that all son are capable to kill their father especially if they experienced bad treatment from their father. Juror 8th was able to persuade most of the jurors and tried to help the Juror 3rd to change his vote and not let his feelings towards his son dictate an injustice toward the kid. At the end of the book, all jurors voted not guilty and delivered proper justice to the kid. In other words, people can never vanish the darkness in their hearts without the help of others. In the book, 42 by Aaron Rosenberg, mainly focuses on the injustice towards people of different races.
The setting of this book mainly focuses during 1940’ where racism continues to grow. Jackie Robinson was one of the characters that were able to distinguish what is good and bad. After the Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie, the players signed petitions that they don’t want Jackie to play with them. No matter what other people said about him, he never loss his focus and continue to make his family proud of him. In fact, he even proposed to his fiancée Rachel. Many people tried everything in order for him to loss his confidence and stop playing baseball. Ben Chapman, manager of Philadelphia Phillies, tries to disrespect Jackie in order to anger Jackie causing him to go back to the dugout and destroy his bat. After he receives some motivational words from Rickey, Jackie returns to the field and scoring the winning run. When the commotion of Chapman and Jackie resulted to a bad reputation for the Phillies, the owner of Phillies forced Chapman to appear in a public conference to gain their good reputation back. Also, Enos Slaughter from St. Louis Cardinals accidentally spiked Jackie’s leg with his cleats. In addition, after being hit in the head by the Pirates’ pitcher, Fritz Ostermueller, Jackie scored a home run clinching the National League, giving them the ticket to the World Series. Throughout his baseball career, many people help and motivated Jackie in order to achieve his goal. For example, Reese was able to understand what Jackie was going through that time, so he made a public show by putting his hands over Jackie’s shoulder. This action of Reese shows how their friendship developed through their lives. In conclusion, Jackie was able to control his composure preventing himself to avenge his experience from the other baseball players that he might regret. At the end of the book, Jackie was able to gain respect from all people by working hard and doing what is best for him and his
family.