I still believe that we shall overcome.....

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" Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts....(people) have

demonstrated that nonviolence is not sterile

passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

Sooner or later all the people in the

world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby

transform this pending cosmic elegy into

a creative psalm of brotherhood._ If this is to be achieved, man must evolve

for all human conflict a method which

rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method

is love......

(I) reject to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in a river

of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him._ I

refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the

starless night of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and

brotherhood can never become a reality.

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral

down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear

destruction._ I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have

the final word in reality._ This is why right temporarily defeated is

stronger that evil triumphant.

I believe that amid today's motor bursts and whining bullets, there is still

hope for a brighter tomorrow._ I believe that wounded justice, lying

prostrate on the blood-flowing streets of our nations, can be lifted from

this dust of shame and reign supreme among the children of men.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals

a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity,

equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered

men have torn down, men other-centered can build up......

I still believe that we shall overcome....."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

December 10, 1964

Oslo, Norway

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AMEN

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