What if the mightiest word is love?

Love is something that can be interpreted in a variety of contexts. “It is love which makes us say we can do better, we expect better, we deserve better, we will struggle until we have better,” said poet Elizabeth Alexander as she stood in front of an attentive crowd just a few days ago.
Alexander, a very credible poet and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Yale University, delivered a speech entitled “The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Hopeful Future.”
“His legacy is on-going and it asks something of us”, Alexander stated. She spoke of King’s legacy and described how it asks all of us individuals to commit to our countries and communities in which we live in. We also have to commit to friends and family around us she explained.
Throughout her determination and pride in discussing King’s legacy, she spoke of love and how it is love which makes us do better in the world. She reminded us of King’s words in saying “let love guide and unite us not for what were fighting against but what we are fighting for.”
This recurring theme of the passion and the need for love was shown throughout Elizabeth Alexander’s speech at the commemorative convocation at Wittenberg University on January 18, 2010.
Throughout her speech, Alexander reflects on the works of Martin Luther King Jr. and in doing so recognizes how much of an impact he has had in what he stood up for. She stated some of King’s words in saying “We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”
Who would have known that sitting in her baby carriage at the March on Washington in 1963 where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous ‘I have a dream speech” would be a scene involving a theme that she would spend her life continuing on through her graceful poetry and speech.
“What if the mightiest word is love?” As she finished up her last words and thoughts with us, many of us were left with a thought that echoed in the back of our minds, something we may never have really thought of before. Having love in your life really is the key in avoiding all heartache and all conflict. As this message consumed all of our minds, the crowd responded in a roaring standing ovation and left us with an idea, a theme, and a legacy to reflect on.