"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Sunday, January 17, 2021
Monday, January 20, 2020
Where Do We Go from Here?
Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political or economic changes. In this sense power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love and justice.
One of the greatest problems of history is that the concept of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love....
What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love....
It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crises of our times.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (Speech, August 16, 1967)
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