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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: January 15, 1929–April 4, 1968
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (excerpt)
OSLO, NORWAY, DECEMBER 10, 1964
“I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept the idea that the ‘isness’ of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal ‘oughtness’ that forever confronts him.
