Although so many of my monthly messages for leaders focus on individual success, our greatest experiences are realized in service and partnership with others.
The words I have selected below from Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1964 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech seem especially timely for us as we reaffirm our ideals and commitments to each other and prepare for the new year.
All good wishes and blessings to you for greater peace, health, understanding and wonder in 2007.
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A Selection from Martin Luther King’s 1964 Novel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
"I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind ...
I believe the 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 even amid today’s motor bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow …
I have the audacity to believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men who are other-centered can build up.
This faith can give us courage 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 freedom.
Today I come to Oslo as a trustee, inspired and with renewed dedication to humanity. I accept this prize on behalf of all men who love peace and brotherhood … I accept this award for all those to whom beauty is truth and truth is beauty – and in whose eyes the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold."
© The Nobel Foundation, Les Prix Nobel en 1964, Goran Liljestrand, editor, Stockholm, 1965
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