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K Page B 10 in o r . e d / t / o n Honored for Peace M artin Luther King Jr. accepts Nobel Prize continued J from page HU aware that this prize is much more appear in W ho’s Who. Yet when years than an honor to me personally. January 12, 2005 Life Dedicated to a Better Humanity M artin Luther King Jr. - Biography have rolled past and when the blazing Martin Luther King, Jr., (January King was, by this time, a member of men. I have the audacity to believe Every time I take a (light, I am light of truth is focused on this marvel 15,1929-April 4, 1968) was born the executive committee o f the Na that peoples everyw here can have always mindful o f the many people ous age in which we live - men and Michael Luther King Jr., but later tional Association for the Advance three meals a day for their bodies, who make a successful journey pos women will know and children will be had his name changed to Martin. His ment of Colored People, the leading education and culture for their minds, sible - the known pilots and the un taught that we have a finer land, a grandfather began the fam ily’s long organization o f its kind in the nation. and dignity, equality and freedom for known ground crew. better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of tenure as pastors o f the Ebenezer He was ready, then, early in Decem Baptist Church in Atlanta. ber 1955 to accept the leadership of their spirits. I believe that what self- So you honor the dedicated pilots of centered m en have torn This award... is a profound recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question o f our time - - the need fo r man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression. down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day m ankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned tri um phant o v er w ar and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will pro claimed the rule o f the land. “And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid.” 1 still believe that We Shall overcome! This faith can give us cour age to face the uncertainties of the future. It will give our tired feet new strength as we continue our forward stride toward the city of free Martin Lutherattended segregated the first great Negro nonviolent dem public schools in Georgia, graduating onstration of contemporary times in from high school at the age o f 15; he the United States, a bus boycott that received the B. A. degree in 1948 lasted 382 days. from Morehouse C ol lege, a distinguished Negro institution of A tlanta from which both his father and grandfather had been graduated. After three years o f theological study at Crozer Theo logical Sem inary in Pennsylvania where he was elected presi dent o f a predom i nantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age o f 15; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College. a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate stud On Dec. 21, 1956, after the Su ies at Boston University, completing preme Court of the United States had dom. When our days become dreary our struggle who have sat at the con God were willing to suffer for righ his residence for the doctorate in declared unconstitutional the laws re with low-hovering clouds and our nights trols as the freedom movement soared teousness sake. 1953 and receiving the degree in quiring segregation on buses, Negroes become darker than a thousand mid into orbit. You honor, once again, Chief I think Alfred Nobel would know 1955 In Boston he met and married and whites rode the buses as equals. nights, we will know that we are living in Lutuli of South Africa, whose struggles what I mean when I say that I accept Coretta Scott, a young woman of During these days o f boycott. King the creative turmoil ofagenuine civiliza tion struggling to be bom. with and for his people, are still met this award in the spirit of a curator of uncommon intellectual and artistic was arrested, his home was bombed, with the most brutal expression of some precious heirloom which he holds attainm ents. T w o sons and tw o he was subjected to personal abuse, Today I come to Oslo as a trustee, m an’s inhumanity to man. You honor in trust for its true owners - all those to daughters were bom into the family. but at the same time he emerged as a inspired and with renewed dedication the ground crew without whose labor whom beauty is truth and truth beauty In 1954, Martin Luther King ac to humanity. I accept this prize on and sacrifices the jet flights to free - and in whose eyes the beauty of cepted the pastorale o f the Dexter In 1957 he was elected president of behalf of all men who love peace and dom could never have left the earth. genuine brotherhood and peace is more Avenue Baptist Church in M ontgom the Southern Christian Leadership brotherhood. I say I come as a trustee, for in the depths o f my hear! I am Most of these people will never make the headline and their names will not precious than diamonds or silver or gold. ery, Ala. 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