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Quotes from Nobel Prize acceptance speech — Martin Luther King Jr.

1929–1968 United States

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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.

Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1964)

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time — the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression.

Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1964)

When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.

Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1964)

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