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Love and Power
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.
--The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968),
speaking for the last time as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on August 16, 1967,
from A Testament of Hope (HarperCollins, 1991)
MAY/JUNE 2001 FEATURES
SELMA '65
'So Nobly Started'
Provided with new insights into the Selma march of 1965, we rediscover its challenge. /BY CHRISTOPHER L. WALTON
'A Witness to the Truth'
(Using Adobe PDF files)
In his previously unpublished eulogy for James Reeb, the leader of the civil rights movement captures the tragedy and triumph of Selma. /BY MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
The View from the Balcony
A diary kept on the fateful day of a martyr's memorial makes personal the community struggle. /BY RICHARD D. LEONARD
The Longest March
A memoir from a man who witnessed James Reeb's beating and has learned to live its lesson. /BY CLARK OLSEN
Good for Nothing
A scientist finds a spiritual side to the study of grasshoppers. /BY JEFFREY A. LOCKWOOD
Cover photo by Howard Sochurek / TimePix, 1960
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