Martin Luther King's impact in the United States was immense, in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo on December 10, 1964, he spoke out against violence and armed conflict around the world. Consider his words as we celebrate his legacy.
"Sooner or later all the people of 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 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!"
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