Foundations of Authentic Leadership

“Since for the Communist there is no divine government, no absolute moral order, there are no fixed, immutable principles; consequently almost anything – force, violence, murder, lying – is a justifiable means to the ‘millennial’ end. This type of relativism was abhorrent to me. Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means.”

(Martin Luther King, Jr. in The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958. Susan Carson, Adrienne Clay, Kieran Taylor, and Virginia Shadron, eds. University of California Press, 2000)