MLK Talks about Love and Power. Thoughts?

[lovemydog]

2. I've found it true, in my experience.

I think we need a profound awakening. The President also spoke about it in his farewell address.

“Laws alone won’t be enough. Hearts must change,” he said. “If our democracy is to work in this increasingly diverse nation, each one of us must try to heed the advice of one of the great characters in American fiction, Atticus Finch, who said, ‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’

and

"I do have one final ask of you as your President -- the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I'm asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change -- but in yours. I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every American whose story is not yet written: Yes, we can. Yes, we did. Yes, we can."

I think we are in another crisis. Only profound internal changes will facilitate external changes that include love. I think we start internally, and then locally with our loved ones and those around us.

Thanks for your post. It got me thinking. What are your thoughts?