24. Sep 2009
Dalai Lama receives US civil rights award
(AP) After praying at the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, the Dalai Lama said: The "civil rights movement led by King gives us conviction today the struggle for justice, against inequality, discrimination (...) despite many difficulties and obstacles, can be won". The Dalai Lama was in Memphis to receive the International Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum, which incorporates the site of the Lorraine Motel. The Dalai Lama toured the museum prior to the award ceremony. Later, he accepted the 2009 International Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum, showing his appreciation by donating his $50,000 honorarium to the museum.