Today I visited the National Portrait Gallery in D.C. with a friend. A section dedicated to MLK reminded me of the inevitable arc of history idea he once uttered. Paradoxically, he also said that “change does not roll in on wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.” I wonder how can you reconcile both. I suppose you don’t. If justice is not inevitable, then the arc of history does not bend on its own. It only bends if we choose to bend it.