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"One of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites - polar opposites - so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love...
We've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
August 16, 1967
"Where Do We Go From Here?" Speech Delivered at the 11th Convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, GA. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gmarkus/MLK_WhereDoWeGo.pdf
"One of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites - polar opposites - so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love...
We've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
August 16, 1967
"Where Do We Go From Here?" Speech Delivered at the 11th Convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, GA. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gmarkus/MLK_WhereDoWeGo.pdf
