SPEECH BY AL GORE ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
DECEMBER 10, 2007
OSLO, NORWAY

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen.

I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it.

Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be. One hundred and nineteen years ago, a wealthy inventor read his own obituary, mistakenly published years before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life’s work, unfairly labeling him “The Merchant of Death” because of his invention – dynamite. Shaken by this condemnation, the inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace.

Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.

Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken – if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious if painful gift: an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose.

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From: Kinship Circle - kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Oct 26, 2007 8:37 PM
Subject: ACT/ Mass MO Dogfight Raid, In Shadow Of Vick Case

KINSHIP CIRCLE ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF
PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST AS WRITTEN

10/26/07: Mass MO Dogfight Raid, In Shadow Of Vick Case
KINSHIP CIRCLE ACTION CAMPAIGN
www.KinshipCircle.org

2 SAMPLE LETTERS IN THIS ALERT:

1. TO: Officials - Fully Penalize Dogfighters
2. TO: Missouri Humane Society - Spare The Dogs

PHOTO: Amy McCubbins, at left, joins Patience Scanlon as they take blood from one of 25 pit bulls and a beagle seized from an organized dog fight outside Dudley, Mo. early Sunday. The dogs and other evidence were taken as investigators joined Stoddard County deputies in the morning raid. The dogs were photographed, treated for wounds and vaccinated at the Humane Society’s headquarters on Macklind Avenue. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post Dispatch)

SOURCE OF INFORMATION:

Fighting dogs likely to be killed

Missouri dogfighting raid nets 3 men, 26 dogs

Humane Society of Missouri seizes 26 dogs from Stoddard County dog fighting situation

Dog-fighting suspected, dogs seized

Law enforcement and judicial circuit for Stoddard County

Thank you Bridget Soeder, a Kinship Circle board member, for research and phone calling to find contact information for this letter-writing campaign!

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