Morality and justice - tolerance, courage and wisdom

The following quote moved me:

Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. 

- Martin Luther King Jr.

There is some necessity within our 'moral universe' to apply both restraint and generosity when it comes to persons, institutions, and systems with which we differ.  However, two important friends, Kevin Light and Pete Grassow, have taught me that this tolerance must come to an end when it impinges upon justice.

I frequently pray that I would have the grace to give enough space for others to 'be', and the courage to act when the choices of others need to be engaged and challenged because they are the cause of abuse and injustice.  And, of course, I also pray that I shall have the wisdom to know the difference between these two...