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"...I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the “is-ness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “ought-ness” that forever confronts him...

 

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant… I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up..."

 

Martin Luther King, Jr. - December 10, 1964

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

 

 

I saw this flag, made I think of old wood flooring boards, in a shop window in Hancock, NY several years ago. Large, about 2x3 ft.

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