What theme does Martin Luther King, Jr. support in the following passage from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech?
After contemplation, I conclude that this award which I
receive on behalf of that movement is a profound
recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial
political and moral question of our time - the need for
man to overcome oppression and violence without
resorting to violence and oppression. Civilization and
violence are antithetical concepts. Negroes of the United
States, following the people of India, have demonstrated
that nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful
moral force which makes for social transformation. Sooner
or later all the people of the world will have to discover a
way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this
pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.
If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human
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