This is a dazzling picture of modern man’s scientific and technological progress. His airplanes and spaceships have dwarfed distance, placed time in chains, and carved highways through the stratosphere. He has built gigantic bridges to span the seas and gargantuan buildings to kiss the skies. He has produced machines that think and instruments that peer into the unfathomable ranges of interstellar space.

He has reached new and astonishing peaks of scientific success. Modern man has brought this whole world to an awe-inspiring threshold of the future.

This evening I would like to use this lofty and historic platform to discuss what appears to me to be the most pressing problem confronting mankind today. These are the real heroes of the freedom struggle: they are the noble people for whom I accept the Nobel Peace Prize. But they are all united in the quiet conviction that it is better to suffer in dignity than to accept segregation in humiliation. I experience this high and joyous moment not for myself alone but for those devotees of nonviolence who have moved so courageously against the ramparts of racial injustice and who in the process have acquired a new estimate of their own human worth. Such is the moment I am presently experiencing. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. It is impossible to begin this lecture without again expressing my deep appreciation to the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament for bestowing upon me and the civil rights movement in the United States such a great honor. Nobel Lecture *, DecemThe quest for peace and justice – Nobel Lecture Share this content via Email

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