“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve
purpose. And 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 the
resignation of power, and power with the 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 anaemic. Power at its best is love implementing
the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting
everything that stands against love. It is precisely this collision of
immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the
major crisis of our time.”
– Martin Luther King Jnr.