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.
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.
at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.
Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.
Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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