For a great take on MLK Day, please go see Nathaniel Whittemore's post, "MLK and the State of our Moral Universe.
The clip that has me reposting here (something I don't do too often) is this excerpt from King's final presidential address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference:
"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...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 power correcting everything that stands against love."
I don't have any commentary to add. I just think it's well said.
Happy Martin Luther King Day.
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