"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 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 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, Jr.