"Some
years ago a famous novelist died. Among his papers was found a list of
suggested story plots for future stories, the most prominently
underscored being this one: 'A widely separated family inherits a house
in which they have to live together.' This is the great new problem of
mankind. We have inherited a big house, a great "world house" in which
we have to live together -- black and white, Easterners and Westerners,
Gentiles and Jews, Catholics and Protestants, Moslem and Hindu, a family
unduly separated in ideas, culture, and interests who, because we can
never again live without each other, must learn, somehow, in this one
big world, to live with each other."
(Excerpted
from Martin Luther King's Nobel Prize lecture, December 11, 1964 in the
Auditorium of the University of Oslo. This text is taken from Les Prix Nobel en 1964.)
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