Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes About Power
-
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
→ -
Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.
→ -
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
→ -
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
→ -
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
→ -
When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
→ -
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.
→ -
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
→
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Born: January 15, 1929
- Died: April 4, 1968
- Occupation: Civil rights activist