Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".
King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence." 4 Apr. 1967, Riverside Church, New York, NY.
This famous ad showed a young girl removing petals from a daisy which then transitions into a nuclear explosion. It is often considered to be the most effective political TV commercial ever produced. One of the reasons it was so effective is that although the Democrats only ran the ad once, it was repeatedly played on television news and analysis shows and is a much studied and discussed approach. The ad was produced by Tony Schwartz.
The documentation of this quotation comes from a memorandum summarizing the meeting written by Presidential aide Harry Hopkins.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. He was the son of early civil rights activist Martin Luther King Sr.