Lot 1759: REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE SPEECH Rare printing, "Nobel Lecture by The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.", Oslo, Dec. 11, 1964, the text of King's acceptance speech after his being awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, 24pp. 8vo., Harper & Row, one of 2,000 copies. In accepting the prestigious award, Dr. King states: "...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...". Near the end of his address, he notes: "...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, Moslems and Hindus, 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....". Fine condition.