Martin Luther King Jr.

==== Correspondence with Thích Nhất Hạnh ====
[[Thích Nhất Hạnh]] was an influential Vietnamese [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] who wrote a letter to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 entitled: "In Search of the Enemy of Man". It was during his 1966 stay in the US that Nhất Hạnh met with King and urged him to publicly denounce the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aavw.org/protest/king_journey_abstract09.html|title=Searching for the Enemy of Man" in Nhat Nanh, Ho Huu Tuong, Tam Ich, Bui Giang, Pham Cong Thien|date=1965|work=Dialogue|publisher=Saigon: La Boi|pages=11–20|access-date=September 13, 2010|archive-date=October 27, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061027112237/http://www.aavw.org/protest/king_journey_abstract09.html|url-status=live}}, Archived on the African-American Involvement in the Vietnam War website</ref> In 1967, King gave a famous speech at the [[Riverside Church]] in New York City, his first to publicly question U.S. involvement in Vietnam.<ref>{{cite speech|url=http://www.aavw.org/special_features/speeches_speech_king01.html|title=Beyond Vietnam|first=Martin Luther Jr.|last=King|location=Riverside Church, NYC|date=April 4, 1967|publisher=Archived on the African-American Involvement in the Vietnam War website|access-date=September 13, 2010|archive-date=August 20, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820044643/http://www.aavw.org/special_features/speeches_speech_king01.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Later that year, King nominated Nhất Hạnh for the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]. In his nomination, King said, "I do not personally know of anyone more worthy of [this prize] than this gentle monk from Vietnam. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to [[ecumenism]], to world brotherhood, to humanity".<ref name="nomination">{{cite letter|url=http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/025.html|subject=Nomination of Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize |first=Martin Luther Jr. |last=King |recipient=The Nobel Institute |date=January 25, 1967 |access-date=September 13, 2010}}</ref>