"...power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political, and economic change."
-Martin Luther King, Jr. in "Where Do We Go From Here?" Annual Report Delivered at the 11th Convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on August 16, 1967, in Atlanta, Georgia
For the whole speech see http://www.stanford.edu/group/king/publi...
For excerpts only see http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0...
I suppose this inquiry might be viewed by some as a "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" question. I believe, however, that it encompasses something more in our contemporary world where power is often fragmented and too often requires the generation of enormous sums of capital to achieve the momentum necessary for success and to achieve the desired effects.
Any comment and elaboration upon these themes would be appreciated.
2006-10-23
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