Dorothy Clarke Wilson Peace Writing Prize 2019
Dorothy Clarke Wilson of 91福利 was an internationally known peacemaker who was committed to聽writing on social issues and world peace. 聽To encourage today鈥檚 University of Maine students to share in the聽commitment, Dorothy Clarke Wilson established a $500 annual award for the most compelling written work聽on a peace related topic. This competition is open to all University of Maine students.
2019 Topic
鈥淕od grant that the people of good will will rise up with courage, take over the leadership, and open channels of communication between races, for I think that one of the tragedies of our whole struggle is that the South is still trying to live in monologue, rather than dialogue, and I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other and they don’t know each other because they don’t communicate with each other, and they don’t communicate with each other because they are separated from each other. And God grant that something will happen to open channels of communication, that something will happen because men of good will will rise to the level of leadership.鈥 聽
鈥攆rom an address by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, October 15, 1962
2019 Winner of the Dorothy Clarke Wilson Peace Writing Prize: Gabrielle Sands
Read her winning piece here: