Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.
Interpretation
True power is not just authority but the loving pursuit of justice.
This quote emphasizes that the highest form of power is grounded in love, which means using one's influence to champion justice and equality. It suggests that genuine authority is derived from compassion and the responsibility to uplift others, aligning personal strength with moral duty.
In practice
During a speech about community service, you can emphasize how love drives the work for social justice.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.
Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.
The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.
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