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When U.S. president Barack Obama decided to give the oval office a new beige makeover (including a new presidential rug that pays homage to Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.), he probably wasn’t planning on the revamped design causing an uproar of sorts.

The rug features a quote, woven into the fabric, that Obama chose to represent Martin Luther King Jr. But the problem is, it’s not really a Martin Luther King Jr. quote.

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Those words actually belong to Theodore Parker, a long-gone Bostoniam champion of social progress. King would often paraphrase Parker, and frequently referred to him as a kindred spirit.

Whoops.

Full story at The Washington Post.

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