MLK Day

For all his personal shortcomings, Dr. Martin Luther King showed America, like Ghandi showed India, how one person can make a difference without resorting to violence. Both men demonstrated the difference between wielding power versus using force to obtain their ends.

Power comes from true strength and has love at the foundation. While force is motivated by fear and the manipulation, coercian and at worst violence that results causes at least as much destruction as compliance.

While Dr. King's hopes and dreams have been partially met, much work is still left to do. Perhaps his greatest legacy isn't what has been achieved in his name, but the power of his methods. It seems that if more people would adhere to his methods, more of his dreams would be reality today.