# King’s Nobel lecture states a public nonviolence brief against racial and international violence

Date: 1964

## The fact

On 11 December 1964 King delivered the Nobel lecture in Oslo, arguing that nonviolence was a public method against racial domination and war.

It is one event.

## Context

A prize can sanctify and can fund.

[Martin Luther King Jr](/people/martin-luther-king-jr).’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded; he accepted 10–11 December 1964 and donated prize money toward the movement.
Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

Nobel Prize Outreach publishes the lecture; the King Institute Nobel encyclopedia independently dates the award and address.

Official or archival record: Nobel Prize — Martin Luther King Jr. 1964 lecture (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/lecture/; Nobel Prize Outreach).

## Significance

A globally copied nonviolence lecture is a humanitarian-method teaching path.

Oslo is not Riverside 1967. Split Vietnam.

A globally copied nonviolence lecture is a humanitarian-method teaching path.

## What is established and what is not

Established: the 1964 Nobel lecture was delivered. Not established: that it bound the United States government.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Martin Luther King Jr..

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

They are not a public rating.

## People

- Martin Luther King Jr.: https://factrail.ai/people/martin-luther-king-jr

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/nobel-peace-prize
- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/lecture/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mlk-nobel-lecture