(00:00:00) Unless you heard by now minority rule came to an end in South Africa today the South African National Assembly has unanimously elected Nelson Mandela as South Africa's first black president. Mandela will formally take office during inauguration ceremonies tomorrow today. The members of The New National Assembly were sworn in with Mandela and other top officials of his African National Congress taking their seats. First among them was Mandela's estranged wife Winnie Mandela. They were Then followed by former president FW de klerk and top leaders of his National Party following the Parliamentary session and Nelson spoke From A Balcony of the Cape Town City Hall telling a crowd of thousands that South Africa is becoming a place where all people regard themselves as citizens of one nation South African Bishop Desmond Tutu introduced president-elect Mandela to that crowd. Friends, this is the day that the Lord has made and where will rejoice and be glad in it. This is the day for which we have waited for over 300 years. This is the day of Liberation for all of us let and wife together. This is a day of Celebration. My fellow citizens. Hey, I can write it call you fellow citizens for on April 27th and 28th South Africa voted and millions of us voted for the very first time and a miracle happened. We discovered that we were South Africans and we have discovered that we are proud of that fact. Yesterday at the FNB Stadium. I send the stem for the very first time in my life, and I loved it. Who will ever forget the picture of a Tokyo shefali taking the salute as the sap and the shgf files passed a new South Africa has come to birth. We have said a resulting now to raise him. What have we said two races in what have we said to Injustice? What have we said to oppression Wonder we said to hatred what have we said to violence? What have we said to alienation and Division and we have said aloud and reverberating. Yes to Freedom. Whatever. He said to Freedom. What have we said to reconciliation? Yes, what have we said to forgiveness what every day I said to piece whatever we said to Unity we of many cultures languages and races are become one nation. We are the rainbow people of God and one man embodies this new spirit of reconciliation in Unity One. Man inspires us all one man inspires the whole world ladies and (00:03:44) gentlemen friends (00:03:47) fellow South Africans. I asked you welcome our brand new State president out of the box Nelson, Mandela South African Bishop Desmond Tutu and indeed Nelson Mandela then appeared on the balcony and spoke to nearly 40,000 South Africans gathered in the street below. (00:04:12) Your Excellence has members of The Diplomatic Corps my fellow South Africa your day when I entering a new era for our country. and its people today, we celebrate not the victory of a party but a victory for all the people of South Africa. Our country has arrived at a decision. Among all the parties that contested the election. They were overwhelming majority of South Africa's have mandated the African National Congress. Too late our country into the future. Hey South, Africa. We have started for in which all our people they are freaking colored engine a white regard themselves as citizens of one nation is at hand. Perhaps it was a street that attained that it be here at the Cape of Good Hope that we should lay the foundation stone of our new nation. Frank was here at this tape over three centuries ago that the began the faithful convergence of the peoples of Africa Europe and Asia on these phones. It was the this peninsula that the parthians among the many princes and Scholars of Indonesia were tracked and Tails. It was understanding planes of this peninsula that the first battles of the Epic was of resistance were fought. When will look out across Tampa Bay? The Horizon is dominated by Robben Island was infamy as the dungeon built to stable. The spirit of freedom is as old as colonialism in South Africa. For Faith Century that Island was seen as a place to which Outcast could be banished. The names of those who are incarcerated and Robben Island is a roll-call of resistance. resistance Fighters and Democrats spanning over three centuries Even date this is the Cape of Good Hope that hope owes much to the spirit of that Legion of Fighters and others of your caliber. We have fought. We're have fought for a democratic Constitution since the 1880s. Ours has been a quest for a constitution freely adopted by the people of South Africa reflecting their wishes and their aspiration. The struggle for democracy has never been a matter pursued by One race class religious community or gender among South Africa in ordering those who fought to see this day arrived. We honor the best Sons and Daughters of all our people we can count amongst them Africans colors White Indians Muslims Christians Hindus Jews all of them United by a common vision of a better life for the people of this country. It was that Vision that inspired Us in 1923 when we are trapped at the first-ever pill of Rights in this country. The same fish inspired us to put forward that the African plains in 1946. It is also the founding principle of the freedom Charter. We adopted as a policy in 1955 which in its very first lines places before South Africa and inclusive basis for citizenship. In the 1980's the African National Congress was still setting the pace being the first major political formation in South Africa to commit itself family to a Bill of Rights which we published in November 1990. There is Milestones give concrete expression to watch South Africa can become. They speak of a constitutional Democratic political order in which of regardless of color gender religion political opinion or sexual orientation. They love will provide for the equal protection of all of our citizens. A protector democracy in which the government whoever not government may be will be bound by a head higher set of rules embodied in the Constitution and will not be able to govern the country as it plays. Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights at the same time democracy also requires that the rights of political and other minorities be safeguarded. In the political order we have established that we have established. There will be regular open and free elections at all levels of government Central provincial and municipal. There shall also appear social order which respects a completely the culture language and religious rights of all sections of our society and the fundamental rights of the individual. the task at hand Will not be easy, but you have mandated has to change the South Africa from a country in which the majority lived with little hope to one in which they can live and work with dignity with a sense of self-esteem and confidence in the future the Cornerstone of building a better life of opportunity freedom and expression. Is the most dynamic program of social upliftment in the history of this country the Reconstruction and development programme this need the unity of purpose it you needs unity in action. It requires us all to work together to bring an end to division and enter to suspicion and to build the nation United in our diversity. People of South Africa have spoken in this election. They want change and change is what they will catch. Our plan is to create jobs promote peace and Reconciliation and to guarantee freedom for all South Africans. We will take the widespread property. So pervasive among the majority of our people by encouraging investors and the Democratic state to support a job creating jobs projects in which manufacturing will play a central role. We will try to change our country from a net exporter of the fuel of raw materials. The one that experts finished products through beneficiation. The government will devise policies that encourage and reward to protecting Enterprise among the disadvantaged communities African coloured and Indian by isn't credit conditions. We can assist them to make inroads into the productive and Manufacturing fears and break out of the small-scale distribution to which they are presently confide. The Rays of our country and its people from the morass of racism and our party will require determination and effort. as the company the AMC will create a legal framework that will assist rather than impede the awesome task of reconstruction and development of our part of society. While we are and shall remain fully committed to the spirit of a government of national Unity. We are determined to initiate and bring about the change that our mandate from the people commands. We play some a vision of a new constitutional order for South Africa on the table. Not as conquerors prescribed to the Concord. We speak as fellow citizens to heal the wounds of the past with the intent of constructing and you order based on justice for all this is the challenge that faces all South Africans today and it is one to which I'm certain we will all right. I thank you. (00:15:12) South African president elect Nelson Mandela speaking today after the first meeting of South Africa's first all-race Parliament. Mandela will be inaugurated tomorrow in Pretoria over 150 dignitaries from other countries around the world are expected to attend as well. As a number of former African heads of state vice president. Al Gore and first lady Hillary, Rodham Clinton will be leading the US delegation. Of course, we'll have all the latest information from South Africa as the transition occurs historic transition in South Africa well to conclude this hour of our midday broadcast. We're going to continue the theme of racial Harmony if you will back in 1965, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech the late. Dr. Martin Luther King jr. Said that violence never brings about a permanent peace. It solves no social problems and merely creates new and complicated ones that teach Ching dr. King has been carried on by his daughter the Reverend Bernice King. She says that an order to stop violence in society. We need to create an atmosphere of Peace around the world Bernice King is an attorney minister at the greater Rising Star Baptist Church in Atlanta. And she serves on the board of directors of the Martin Luther King Center for nonviolent. Social change Bernice King spoke recently at st. Olaf College in Northfield at st. Olaf's annual Peace Prize for him. I must say that I was pleased that you have selected as your theme for this plenary session peacemaking and the Civil Rights Legacy for I believe strongly that peacemaking in the 1990s is very much a part of the Civil Rights Legacy. One of the most important accomplishments of the American Civil Rights Movement was that it reminded Americans and people all over the world. That descent was not merely a right in a democracy. An obligation when the Civil Rights Movement began in 1955, the United States had only begun to recover from the smothering repression of free speech of the McCarthy era in addition to providing African-Americans with a vehicle for their Liberation the movement rekindled awareness of the importance of protest in keeping democracy alive, the Civil Rights Movement inspired a host of other movements to engage in nonviolent protest and Civil Disobedience the struggle of Mexican-American Farm Workers led by Caesar the lake Cesar Chavez the movement to end the United States involvement in the Vietnam War the woman's rights movement disarmament and environmental groups have all used the disciplined and nonviolent protest strategies pioneered by Martin Luther King jr. And Mahatma Mahatma Gandhi. The solidarity movement in Poland used a documentary about the American Civil Rights Movement as a training film for their protest activities in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. And even in Moscow protesters could be heard singing We Shall Overcome the anthem of the American Civil Rights Movement as they marched through the streets on their road to Freedom Corazon Aquino has said that the people power movement which liberated the Philippines from the shackles of one of the world's most repressive dictatorships was profoundly influenced by the civil rights movement in the United States and who could forget the photographs of young people in China during the peeking Uprising holding up signs that said we shall overcome clearly the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. Transcends National boundaries and different languages people of all Races religions and nations are embracing the teachings of Martin Luther King jr. And Mahatma Gandhi and applying them with remarkable results all over the world and I would like to take a moment at this point to congratulate our sister rigoberta Menchu for the courageous leadership. You have demonstrated on behalf of the oppressed people of Guatemala and all of the indigenous people of the Americas (00:19:47) like (00:20:01) like Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, you have moved and inspired us with your uncompromising dedication to non-violence in the pursuit of Justice. And human rights. I want you to know that we stand with you and I speak on behalf of not just myself but my mother and family is well in your struggle and I will be praying for your success and be looking forward to working with you in future endeavors. I believe that the future of non-violent action in advance in peace. Not only in America, but around the world can be and even bright. Can he be even brighter than its past? In the movie Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner was told these words. If you build it, they will come and these words suggest the importance of creating an atmosphere for bringing about a particular result. And this means that if we desire a peaceful world, then we will have to do things in the world that are in accordance with peace to develop a concept of peace is only a starting point. We do we must do more than focus on peace. We must do more than talk about peace. We must work aggressively towards peace. My father once said one of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest. I'd sophisticates to discern that while everybody talks about Peace peace has practically become nobody's business many men cry peace. Peace. Peace, but they refuse to do the things that make for peace, but this is the kind of hypocrisy that I suggest we can no longer afford in this world because too many human lives are being sacrificed in the process. What we need is a new concept of living that will lead to a peaceful existence. However, before we can take a stab at A New Concept, we need to understand what it is that undermines and threatens the possibility of Peace starting first here in America in my opinion. Probably the greatest hindrance to a peaceful world is when that that Society accepts violence as a way of life from the founding of this nation of ours we have resorted to violence to resolve conflict from the American Revolution to the war in the Persian Gulf to Somalia and these seeds of violence that our government has sold all around the world have now placed us in a position of being victims of the violence in our own society. And I suggest that this is perhaps one reason why the bombing of the World Trade Center occurred and I suggest that this is also perhaps one of the reasons why most Americans resort to violence to resolve every day conflicts people in our society have watched the way America has conducted itself around the world and have concluded that it's all right to use violence to resolve conflict and For instance. I believe that this is certainly one of the reasons as to why young African-American males are killing other young African-American males in my opinion gang violence in many ways is a mere replica of the many conflicts that this nation has had with other nations for you. See young people are mimicking what they hear and see us do to other people in other nations. There is also violence in our midst that is the natural outgrowth of what I see as bad social and economic policies. I ask is a man or a woman who steals a loaf of bread because he or she is hungry a criminal or victim is a teenager who sells drugs to support his family and put food on the table for his younger brother and sister a criminal or a victim. I suggest that while we see them as criminals because they broken a law they are just as much If not more of a victim why because their acts can be directly attributable to the Social and economic policies that would lead one to make such unfortunate decisions. And these are unfortunate acts of violence and crime that are born of poverty in the midst of such great affluence. The mentality is that if you have what I want and there's no legal way for me to get it because I'm a victim of inadequate job opportunities. Then I will do whatever it takes to get what you have even if it means killing you in the process, but my father often said that violence is the voice of the unheard and certainly those in poverty are often the unheard in our society and as a result, they don't hesitate to resort to violence and crime. Well, probably the greatest influence of violence in our modern society particularly as it relates to our youth is the media and the entertainment industry to make my point clear look at some of the past films and their use of violence to entertain us in our desire to be entertained by Dy heart to we were exposed to 264 deaths in Robocop 281. People are ousted which more than doubled the 32 which were killed in Robocop one and we're told that by the age of 18 the average American child will have seen 200,000 violent acts on television including 40 thousand murders and psychologist at the University of Illinois studied one set of children for more than 20 years. They found that kids who watch significant amounts of TV violence. At the age of eight what consistently more likely to commit violent crimes or engage in child or spouse abuse at the age of 30 in conclusion. They wrote We believe that heavy exposure to televise violence is one of the causes of aggressive behavior crime and violence in society. Now, I believe these findings because if one can be uplifted or inspired by reading the Bible if a sad or a touching song can bring a tear to ones I then violence from the TV can affect all people no matter what age sex socioeconomic status or level of intelligence now many may take the position that because I see someone killed on television doesn't mean that I will go out and kill someone else and that is probably right, but the me, His power is not all directed toward turning us into what we see. There are other tragedies that grow out of our excessive intake of violence for you. See if we are not an imitator of what we witness. We may be at risk of becoming totally numb to the violent images. We see we risk becoming insensitive to the horror of suffering such as when we watched emotional list as anchor men and women report on the violent death of a child we get to the point that we accept the gruesome crime because it happens every day. Yes, we've accepted violence so much that it's like a shadow that will not go away. We turn on the television to watch the news there's violence. You pick up the morning paper to see what's going on in the world violence, you go to class and a classmate will not speak violence the professor or even you may have gotten up on the wrong side of the bed and smoke is coming out of your nostrils violence everywhere. We turn there seems to be violence the question then becomes where is the piece where the teachings that would give us an alternative to the madness? That's all around us. Our entire world order. It appears is based on a model of competition rather than a model of cooperation. The models many of us have been taught is rugged individualism rather than compassionate communalism. This is certainly I believe what led to the attack on Nancy Kerrigan for you see when one's values and principles are dictated by a model of competition, then it can lead one. Down a dark corner of uncertainty and a sure path to Violent interactions. Too many of us have gotten caught up in the cycle of violence and the psychological pseudo bogus counterfeited step on everybody mentality and in the process, we've lost respect for human life. But it was my father who fought with all he had to break this pattern of rugged individualism this pattern that promotes get all you can by any means you can by stepping on whomever. You can by employing any means you can but damn we gon go on as if nothing is happening there. We close our eyes and refuse to see the devastation all around us. It's time for people to rise up and righteous indignation and say enough is enough. Somebody must say we are tired of violence. We are tired of murders. We are tired of gang wars. We are tired of young people dying in our streets. We are tired of innocent people being killed at the expense of exploitation and greed. If we are serious about peace, then we're in dire need of something new and something different. We've tried violence for a long time and what we've gotten is just more violence. For violence only begets violence as my father said in his 1965 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in spite of the temporary victories violence never brings permanent. Peace. It solves no social problem. It merely creates new and more complicated ones violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love violence is Impractical because it is a descending spiral ending and Destruction for all it is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than when his understanding it destroys community and makes Brotherhood impossible. It leaves Society in monologue rather than dialogue violence ends up defeating itself. Therefore if we're going to cut off the chain of hate and violence not only in our society, but the World At Large then we need to embrace the concept of peace peace that is rooted in a philosophy that is consistent with bringing about the results of peace or creating an atmosphere for peace and all of us are aware or should be aware that it was my father who was the proponent of non-violence as the means for bringing into being a peaceful world society and since his untimely death in 1968, my mother Coretta Scott King through the Martin Luther King Center for nonviolent. Social change has institutionalized my father's philosophy of non-violence. The express mission of the King Center is to teach and train individuals in the philosophy of non-violence as a spouse by dr. King as a means for resolving conflicts peacefully and we call it King in non-violence as a member of the king. Family and the board of directors of the King Center and as a follower of Jesus Christ himself, I have a great allegiance to King and non-violence as a concept for bringing about peace. Allow me to briefly talk about the essence of it for I must say at the outset that most people who do not understand non-violence. I've never really tried it they may have used it as a methodology or a tactic to win temporary victories, but not as a way of life and yet non-violence as a spouse by dr. King is a way of life unlike violence. It does not choose pick and choose his battles, kingi and non-violence is a way of conducting oneself at every moment under all circumstances. Dr. King said that he had come to realize that non-violence was not just a tactic to be used in a movement for social change, but it had come to be a way of life. Way of dealing with all interactions confrontations and heated exchanges in this vein King and non-violence is a philosophy that permeates a person's way of thinking and feeling being and doing and for dr. King the philosophy of non-violence was inspired by Jesus Christ specifically, it was Jesus's words from The Sermon on the Mount that said love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you that inspired my father for in these words. He discovered a strong love ethic that enabled him to transcend the conflicts he faced on a daily basis and also drove him to speak out against the war in Vietnam. This is why we say that Kenny and non-violence requires spiritual discipline because one cannot adequately adequately study and embrace it without understanding and embracing. So Essence while love is the most important spiritual ethic there are others like forgiveness respect humiliation and compassion and with all of the pride and the arrogance and ego tripping of people everywhere. It is certainly easy to see why one needs to be truly spiritually discipline to immerse oneself in a non-violent lifestyle and why it's so difficult for most people those who really understand non-violence understand that it's not up to for the week nor the fearful but that non-violence can only be applied by those who are courageous and faithful for cowards hide behind bullets and weapons of Destruction, but a true nonviolent disciple carries only the weapon of love and believes that all things are possible with God and will commit him or herself toward that end without Leading to violence allow me to clarify then for you a popular misconception about King and non-violence many people see it as the alternative to or the opposite of violence, but it's not in the king and philosophy violence is viewed as a symptom symptom that something is wrong in the social fabric fabric generally speaking, my father classified these wrongs as the triple evils of poverty racism and War specifically the in violence is a sickness in our society and if left untreated it can hand has become fatal. Therefore violence should be treated as we would any other illness when a child is sick. We don't tell them you will be alright and leave their care to themselves, but we doctor on them and give them cold remedies and take them to the hospital if necessary. Well then poverty racism and War are Stop the Violence that exists in our world just as coughs and fevers are the symptoms of a cold and left untreated a cold can turn into pneumonia flu or some other respiratory problem left untreated violence in our society escalates to the ultimate form of violence, which is total Annihilation. And that's why we say that non-violence is the treatment that is used to rid Society of the cancer of violence and all of its manifestations. And therefore if we want to solve violence, the non-violence is the ultimate cure the concept that we need and this is why dr. King said that the choice is no longer between violence or non-violence. The choice is non-violence or non-existence non-violence, then is really the only choice we have to bring peace to our communities our society and our world. We also we will continue to die and witness these tragic and unfortunate deaths. But I believe that the ravaged people of Bosnia and Burundi the oppressed Burma and Kurdistan China the Middle East and South Africa can all find new and creative ways to apply these nonviolent strategies to secure peace and human rights culture and traditions may vary but the transformative healing force of non-violence is really Universal non-violence can be adapted to work in any cultural context. But only if its practitioners have some basic understanding and training my father developed six key principles of non-violence, which undergirded all of his actions in the movement these same principles can help us prepare for the struggles that lie ahead. The first principle he emphasized is that non-violence nonviolent resistance requires courage nonviolent resistors often must put themselves In Harm's Way, it takes courage and self discipline not to retaliate with violence. Non-violence is the way of the strong and not the week a second principle of non-violence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate adversaries but to win their friendship and understanding next time you have an argument with a family member or roommate, for example, try to resist the temptation to use put-downs or sarcasm. No matter how negative you think. They are acting keep your side of the disagreement in a spirit of friendship and you will get better results. Thirdly non-violence seeks to defeat evil and Injustice not people. We actively oppose the adversary. Behavior but we resolved to respect their personhood. You have to separate the evil deed from the evil doer a fourth principle is that the nonviolent resistor is willing to be victimized by violence if necessary, but never to inflict it we accept unearned suffering for the cause of Justice with the faith that it opens tremendous educational and transforming possibilities in the film Gandhi. For example, there's a scene where unarmed demonstrators are brutally beaten as they protest the British salt tax. The demonstrators were in effect holding up a mirror to their abusers to show them their own brutality some say that moment was the beginning of the end for the British Empire because it made the British realized that they could not Prevail against such courage and determination the fifth Point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only physical violence, but also the internal violence of the spirit. We not only refused to injure our opponents. We also refused to hate them. We resolved to keep an unconditional and all forgiving love even for our adversaries at the center of our response realizing that hate is too great a burden to bear. Well the sixth and final principle of nonviolent resistance resistance is the conviction that the universe is on the side of justice that God is a god of Justice and so we hold a deep faith in the future which has no room for cynicism of Despair these six principles provide the best answer to the question. What is the appropriate attitude toward my adversary the best way to get rid of your enemies is to get rid of your own animosities make your enemy of friend. If you can find a way to love those who have two struck who you have to struggle with no matter how reprehensible you find their actions. This is true at the personal as well as the social and political levels. In fact, if you bring the six principles of non-violence into your conflicts with your family and friends, I can assure you that you will get beneficial results and I would like to say to the students of st. Olaf's and other schools who are here with us today that it was college students like you students of all Races and religions Who provided crucial lead. Ship for the American Civil Rights Movement young people are always in the Vanguard of successful social movements setting an energetic tone of courage and idealism which compels and aggressive Spirit of social action. So I want to encourage all of you to get involved in nonviolent movements against poverty racism and violence, I urge you to speak out against an organized your fellow students to boycott this toxic culture of violence that has poison music and films and television support those artists and entertainers who are promoting a culture of non-violence. I urge you to become activists Against Racism and all forms of prejudice and bigotry which means calling even for a multicultural curriculum. I call you to campaign for gun control to speak out against the death penalty. Joy elected representatives in Congress to stop wasting our economic resources on military weapons and invest in the revitalization of (00:43:19) our community. (00:43:32) We need those economic resources to revitalize our communities our educational system and healthcare for all which doesn't put profits over people and lastly I appeal to you ultimately to become World citizens informed and motivated to support human rights and peace movements and every nation and I must say that I was gratified by the connection of this form to Norway a nation, which I admire greatly not only for its relationship to the Nobel Peace Prize, but also because it has a greater percentage of women holding High government offices than any other (00:44:10) country. (00:44:25) The Norwegian Norwegian people have passed on a great tradition of peace and passion for social justice that has extended to Americans of Norwegian Heritage on these Shores. And now as a result of the Olympic spectacle in Lillehammer, we have all become more aware of Norway's dazzling environmental Beauty. I hope and pray that the 1990s will prove to be the decade when the people of every nation realized that the piece of humanity is inextricably intertwined with our love and respect for Mother Earth with the end of the Cold War. The gravest threat to human survival is no longer nuclear nuclear weapons. It is environmental Armageddon. We must now bring the same passion and commitment the same. At a revolutionary non-violence that brought down the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall to save the rainforests of Brazil and Africa and Asia. Let this be the decade when we rise up in a magnificent display of international solidarity and nonviolent action to put an end to the suicidal pollution that is destroying our planet. We can't separate Environmental Protection from the work of peacemaking between people and Nations as we move forward to fulfill Martin Luther King Junior's dream of a worldwide Beloved Community. We must make sure that we are living the dream in the spirit of non-violence if peace is our goal then it must be our way as well. My father said we will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war it is necessary. Love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative exposure of War but on the positive affirmation of Peace, we must see that piece represents a suite of Music a cosmic Melody that is far superior to the discords of war in short. We must shift the arms race into a piece race. If we have the will and determination to mount such a piece of fences, we will and unlock hither or too tightly sealed doors of Hope and transform our imminent Cosmic LT, elegy into a creative Psalm of Peace in keeping with the overall theme for this Peace Prize for I conclude this evening with an affirmation of faith that if we sold the seeds of global Justice we shall indeed reap the fruits of Peace for all. Kind let us dare brothers and sisters to dream of a piece that Humanity has never known. Let us dream of a New Jerusalem where Muslims and Jews break bread together at the table of Brotherhood and Sisterhood and a new Belfast where Catholic and Protestant children learn how to love and trust each other as they grow together in a community of caring let us dream of a new day in the Americas when the native peoples of this hemisphere. I no longer denied they are human rights and African-Americans are judge for the content of their character and not the color of their skin. Let us dare to dream of a great non-racial democracy in South Africa and a nun sexist society in Saudi Arabia. Let us dare to dream of a world where no child of any race or Nation goes to bed hungry at night a world where My family has decent shelter employment for their bread winners and equal and inclusive educational opportunities for its young people. Let us dare to dream about a new era when the armaments of annihilation are replaced with the plow shells per plowshares of renewal when the death penalty is outlawed by every nation and prisoners of conscience are set free worldwide. If we can share in this Vision, then we can begin to nurture it and bring it into reality in meeting this challenge. We like the way to the end of humanities long nightmare of poverty racism and militarism and the dawning of a braver and better future for all people with this faith and this commitment. Let us go forward to the new millennium United and determined to create a more just loving and a unified world. Thank you, and God (00:49:14) bless. (00:49:17) Reverend Bernice King speaking at the annual Peace Prize Forum at st. Olaf College in Northfield. She's an attorney a minister at the greater Rising Star Baptist Church in Atlanta and a member of the board of directors of the Martin Luther King Center for nonviolent. Social change.